If you're referring to my procedure for newid(), then it was just because of pure laziness; it was an internal proof of concept project, and I was still concentrating on getting it working.
Mike Pollard SUPRA Server SQL Engineering and Support Cincom Systems, Inc. -------------------------------- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:57 AM To: Mario Weilguni Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Pollard, Mike; Bill Bartlett; Fredrik Olsson Subject: Re: [HACKERS] MS SQL Server compatibility functions > Why do you use "GRANT ALL" and not "GRANT SELECT, UPDATE"? All means everybody > can do bad things with those sequences. GRANT ALL on a sequence IS GRANT SELECT & UPDATE. Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly