On 7/14/15 12:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Thom Brown writes:
On 14 July 2015 at 17:17, Robert Haas wrote:
Since it's trivial to define this function if you need it, I'm not
sure there's a reason to include it in core.
It's not always possible to create functions on a system when access
is restr
Thom Brown writes:
> On 14 July 2015 at 17:17, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Since it's trivial to define this function if you need it, I'm not
>> sure there's a reason to include it in core.
> It's not always possible to create functions on a system when access
> is restricted. It may even be the case
On 14 July 2015 at 17:17, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> > When using currval() to find the current value of all sequences, it chokes
> > on those that aren't initialised. This is expected and documented as
> > behaving in this manner. However, I th
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> When using currval() to find the current value of all sequences, it chokes
> on those that aren't initialised. This is expected and documented as
> behaving in this manner. However, I think it would be useful to also
> support retrieving the
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 14 July 2015 at 16:02, David G. Johnston
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>>
>>> The use-case I have in mind is for finding out how close to the 32-bit
>>> integer limit sequences have reached. At the mom
On 14 July 2015 at 16:02, David G. Johnston
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>
>> The use-case I have in mind is for finding out how close to the 32-bit
>> integer limit sequences have reached. At the moment, this isn't possible
>> without creating a custom function
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> The use-case I have in mind is for finding out how close to the 32-bit
> integer limit sequences have reached. At the moment, this isn't possible
> without creating a custom function to go fetch the last_value from the
> specified sequence.
>
Hi all,
When using currval() to find the current value of all sequences, it chokes
on those that aren't initialised. This is expected and documented as
behaving in this manner. However, I think it would be useful to also
support retrieving the current value of a sequence, regardless of whether
i
