| From: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Function PostgreSQL 9.2 | 
| Date: | 2016-04-20 22:05:17 | 
| Message-ID: | 5717FD1D.6000303@hogranch.com | 
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On 4/20/2016 2:51 PM, drum(dot)lucas(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> 1 - The customer can add any value into users.code column
> 2 - The customer can chose between *add or no**t* add the value on 
> users.code column
> 3 - If users.code is null (because the customer's chosen not to add 
> any value in there), a trigger/function has to do the job.
> 4 - the function/trigger add the next available value, which the 
> default is 1000 and it's stored on companies.client_code_increment
why don't you use a SEQUENCE for this?
... DEFAULT nextval('sequencename') ...
initialize the sequence to 1000.
done.
still sounds pretty sketchy.
-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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