Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>
>> The thing is that I don't care how it's implemented, it's the feature
>> itself that is more importent to decide if we want it or not. I'm
>> sure the
>> code can be fixed so everybody is happy it in the end,
>
>
> You could implement this on top of the current nextval without backend
> changes.
>
> Create a wrapper function on top of nextval that stores the value in a
> temp table. Or a session variable if your PL language of choice has them.
>
> lastval would do a select on the temp table.
>
>
And this is making life easier for anybody? I don't think so.
cheers
andrew