On 9/16/10 4:17 PM, Aras Angelo wrote:
Daniel, Craig
The gaps are not really expected. It is set once only.
Its about printing packing slips for ecommerce orders. We have the ORDER ID
sequence, but so many different stations are accessing these orders, if my
station print the next 100 orders from the que, id like to give them values
starting from MAX(print_number_sequence so far) AND +1, +2, +3, .... +100.
I hope this clears it better. I think a sequence can work. My concern was
performance, as in the actual programming LOOP, querying the max field,
assigning the row number, reissuing the max field. A sequence i guess, would
perform better than a regular table index?
Sequences are very fast. Just do something like this:
update mytable set order_id = nextval('order_id_seq') where ...
Using this technique, you will only get gaps in the sequence if something goes
wrong and the transaction is rolled back. But given what you have told us
about your application, it is probably not very important if a few ORDER ID
numbers are missing.
Craig
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Craig James <craig_ja...@emolecules.com
<mailto:craig_ja...@emolecules.com>> wrote:
On 9/16/10 3:54 PM, Aras Angelo wrote:
Hello All
I have a column in my table which is incrementally updated.
Try to give us more details...
Does the column need have contiguous values or are "gaps" ok? That is, does
it have to be 1,2,3,4,...,N-1,N or is it ok to have something like 1,3,4,7,...,M (where
M>N) for N rows?
Is the value updated every time the row is changed, or is it set once only?
If gaps are OK, then a sequence is a simple answer.
Craig
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