Re: One sequence for different tables

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:20:35PM +0100,
  Robert.Farrugia@go.com.mt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to create one sequence to be used for more than one table ?
> Let's say I create a pkey_seq sequence.
> Can I use it in table A (pkey default nextval('pkey_seq') PRIMARY KEY) and
> in table B as (pkey default nextval('pkey_seq') PRIMARY KEY) ?
> Is it safe in that each table will have unique values i.e. if I have a
> third table C which is used to link data both from A and B using the pkey
> field, will there be records having the same pkey but from different
> tables?

The sequence values will be unique accross tables when doing things this way.