Interesting. That just seems like a blatantly stupid way to implement
a sequence... but, if that's the way Oracle does it, then I guess
that's the way we need to support it.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

-Evan

On Mar 2, 1:28 am, Johann Schleier-Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> The START WITH value for a sequence is returned after the first call to
> NEXTVAL, so the H2 implementation and tests are sensible.
> For comparison I ran this code in Oracle.  It throws an error (ORA-08002) if
> call TESTSEQ.CURRVAL before TESTSEQ.NEXTVAL.  Returning start with minus
> increment rather than an error for an initial call to CURRVAL is a
> reasonable implementation.
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Evan Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've been banging my head trying to figure out why my new code for
> > SEQUENCEs isn't passing the tests stored in the testing script. I
> > think it's because the tests are all based on an incorrect
> > implementation of SEQUENCE!
>
> > In the current version of the code, try the following:
>
> > CREATE SEQUENCE testSeq START WITH 5;
> > SELECT testSeq.currval;
>
> > Because this sequence is starting with 5 and we haven't modified it,
> > it stands to reason that currval would return 5, doesn't it? It
> > doesn't do that, though. Instead, it returns 4. Similarly, the
> > following SQL code...
>
> > CREATE SEQUENCE testSeq START WITH 10 INCREMENT BY 3;
> > SELECT testSeq.currval;
>
> > ...will return 7. In Sequence.java, the value is stored correctly, but
> > the function "getCurrentValue()" returns the current value minus the
> > increment. However, all the script tests seem to think this is normal.
> > Am I missing something, or isn't this incorrect behavior?
>
> > -Evan
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