Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> The idea wouldn't have considered to cross my mind
> if Tom didn't mention the action-at-a-distance behaviour.
AFAIR, that remark had to do with NEXT VALUE FOR, which SQL2003 defines
in a very weird way (it's not equivalent to nextval() as one would wish).
I don't see anything strange in the spec for GENERATED.
regards, tom lane