On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 19:37:41 +0100,
Janning Vygen <vygen@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> the other reason why i wanted gapless sequences was that i would love to use
> the id in an URL. But this is easy to manage to translate a positional id in
> an URL to the database id.
For this you probably shouldn't be using the sort value (even if you use
numeric to avoid having to renumber). This should use a real primary key.
This you definitely can use a sequence for if there isn't a natural
primary key.