On 04/03/2014 19:10, Rick Hillegas wrote:
On 1/3/14 4:49 AM, Tim Dudgeon wrote:
I'm trying to use a sequence to generate a value where one is not
supplied, but I'm not able to only increment the sequence when its
needed. This is actually going on in a trigger, but to simplify
matters here is an example that illustrates the problem:
VALUES SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_PEEK_AT_SEQUENCE('APP', 'SEQ_CPD_CODE');
VALUES COALESCE(99, NEXT VALUE FOR seq_cpd_code);
VALUES SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_PEEK_AT_SEQUENCE('APP', 'SEQ_CPD_CODE');
In the coalesce function the first argument is always non null, so the
second argument should never be needed, but you will see that the
sequence is incremented anyway.
Are there any alternative approaches that can avoid this?
I was thinking of trying in a CASE statement instead, but sequences
can't be used there :-(
Thanks
Tim
Hi Tim,
I have looked more closely at this. I believe that Derby should not
allow NEXT VALUE FOR inside a COALESCE expression. My reasoning can be
found on this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6494.
However, I don't feel inclined to fix this divergence from the SQL
Standard if you rely on it.
Thanks,
-Rick
Rick
Sorry for delay - I only just spotted your response.
I'm not actually using NEXT VALUE FOR inside COALESCE as it didn't give
me what I wanted (the sequence was always being incremented even when
not necessary). So changing behaviour won't impact me.
Instead I reverted to using Java stored procedure as this allowed me to
do the conditional stuff that I needed.
But its seems like an unnecessary workaround. I would have thought it
would be useful to conditionally grab a value from a sequence, and if
this can't be done with CASE or COALESCE then its probably not possible
except by reverting to Java.
So I've got no strong feelings either way.
Tim
