The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 4023
Logged by: Giovani Murilo Dantas Correa
Email address: contato@isolution.inf.br
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.0 and 8.1.9
Operating system: Linux 2.6.X (Slackware and Fedora)
Description: The transaction control does not work for sequences
Details:
create sequence seq_test;
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 1
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 2
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 3
BEGIN;
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 4
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 5
select nextval('seq_test'); --return value 6
ROLLBACK;
select currval('seq_test'); --return value 6
This is not right. The currval must have be 3 and not 6.