Re: data dependent sequences?

"Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote in message news:20070717164437.GJ21688@phlogiston.dyndns.org...
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:40:21AM -0600, Stuart wrote:
> > is not really structually important -- it is a value that 
> > exists soley for the UI.  
> 
> Hmm.  Maybe you should use generate_series() for the UI instead?  It
> would always give you the order you like, you could use the universal
> sequence or whatever for your ORDER BY clause, and not store data
> that you actually don't care about.

Except that the value does matter outside of the database and thus
needs to be remembered.  It is not used for ordering at all.