Re: Partitioning, Identity and Uniqueness (given pg 16 changes)

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Darryl Green <darryl(dot)green(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partitioning, Identity and Uniqueness (given pg 16 changes)
Date: 2024-02-19 14:11:25
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZ1D3to93Jy_R5xhotbugh0auTbfagRBOO+HBRFKGH77w@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, February 19, 2024, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Monday, February 19, 2024, Darryl Green <darryl(dot)green(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > It may be possible to still have it work by doing a speculative record
>> > in the index for the target table then go and check all of the other
>> > indexes before marking the speculative entry as valid.
>>
>> It is always valid - except in the OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE case - no?
>>
>
> False.
>
> ALTER TABLE … ALTER id RESTART 1;
>

Even without a reset as soon as you override system value at least one
future non-override insert is going to fail when the sequence catches up to
whatever that non-overridden value was.

David J.

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