Re: system table storing sequence attributes

From: Marcin Stępnicki <mstepnicki(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: system table storing sequence attributes
Date: 2007-05-22 12:41:38
Message-ID: pan.2007.05.22.12.41.38.862364@gmail.com
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Dnia Tue, 22 May 2007 15:23:44 +0300, Sabin Coanda napisał(a):

> ...
>> select last_value from sequence_name
>
> Unfortunately there is the same problem. The documentation say: "It is an
> error to call lastval if nextval has not yet been called in the current
> session." .... and I don't want to call nextval before.

I think that you either misunderstood this statement or try to break your
application in a nasty way ;). Please tell us more about your problem
and/or what do you want to achive, because sequences behave this way for a
reason (concurrency issues). Perhaps there is another solution.

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