Is this "invoice_number" just an id or what might appear an a bill (in
some pretty form etc)?

If the former, just get a unique id over all invoices.  At the very
least it will save time i) in writing where clauses ii) re-creating the
correct id once some one assigns an invoice to the wrong customer.

On 10/22/2010 01:18 PM, Michael Gardner wrote:
> Consider the following table:
> 
> CREATE TABLE invoice (
>       account_id integer NOT NULL REFERENCES account,
>       invoice_number integer NOT NULL,
>       UNIQUE (account_id,invoice_number));
> 
> I would like to do the equivalent of making invoice_number a serial type, but 
> on a per-account basis. Would it be a reasonable approach to create a 
> separate sequence for each individual account? Are there performance 
> implications I should know about, given that there will be hundreds of 
> thousands of accounts? Is there another approach I should be looking at 
> instead?

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