Re: COPY and Volatile default expressions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY and Volatile default expressions
Date: 2013-04-15 19:52:21
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYunLHaD66QX2J58YQmj58RFuOMDzp-a_guMzfbbPP3=A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I claim this is a common class, since sequence next_val functions and
>> uuid generators meet that criteria and most common forms of auditing
>> trigger, as well as any other form of data-reformatting trigger.
>
> I don't believe that it's a good idea to consider nextval() to be
> reorderable, so I'm not convinced by your argument here.

Why not?

I admit that I can't convince myself that it's safe. But I can't
think of a concrete example where it breaks anything, either.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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