Re: SERIAL behaviour

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Eugene wrote:

> The problem is that on a rollback, the value of the sequence does not go
> back to its previous value!

And this is a big efficiency win. Say you get sequence number 100.
You start your work, and while you're chugging along, three other
transactions also start, and also request sequence numbers, getting
101, 102 and 103. If you then rollback your transaction, you can't put
the sequence number back to 100 unless you force the following three
transactions also to abort.

Alternatively, you could lock the sequence while the transaction is
running, but then numbers 101, 102 and 103 would have to wait for your
number 100 transaction to commit or roll back before they could even
start to work, thus slowing down the system.

cjs
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