On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> * How should one invoke nextval() and friends on such a sequence?

> Perhaps we could allow people to write nextval(sequencename) and/or
> sequencename.nextval, which would expose the sequence object to the
> parser so that datatype overloading could occur.

I'm not worried about the size of the return type of
a sequence, but I like the idea of Oracle-compatible
"seq.nextval" syntax.

Matthew.


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