Re: Sequence Access Method WIP

On 11/08/2014 12:35 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Do you think it'd be simple to provide a blocking, transactional
>> sequence allocator via this API? i.e. gapless sequences, much the same
>> as typically implemented with SELECT ... FOR UPDATE on a counter table.
>>
>> It might be more digestible standalone, and would be a handy contrib/
>> example extension demonstrating use of the API.
>>
> 
> Yes I think that's doable (once we iron out the API we can agree on).

Cool; I think that'd be an interesting self-contained example that'd
also have real-world uses ... and provide a nice succinct way to answer
those semi-regular "how do I create a sequence that doesn't have holes"
questions.

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