Re: Invoice number

Mike Castle wrote: >On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:10:00AM +0100, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: >> - Sequences are not
rollback'able.> >Did you mean SERIAL instead of sequence here? > >If so, why is no rollbackable an issue?  All you
shouldneed is unique >numbers.  Not necessarily exactly sequential numbers.
 

For invoice numbers, it matters.

Numbers missing from such a sequence are likely to provoke questions from
auditors and taxmen; why borrow trouble?

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