Re: sequences and Transactions

> Hi!
> 
> how can I setup sequences to have the current-value reset in case 
> of an Transaction rollback.
> 
> My intension is to get an contignous numbering of the rows. 
> Currently in case of an Rollback one number is skipped since 
> the record itself is not inserted but the counter is not reset.

People have asked this before.  If we did that rollback, we would have
to lock the sequence value for the duration of the transaction, which is
not good.   No real way to do this, sorry.

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