Re: Roll Back dont roll back counters

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:15:13PM +0300, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> If I design a table with SERIAL type and then try to insert few rows, but
> some of the rows are rolled back the roll back process does not roll back
> the counter status.
>
> Is there a way to do a roll back to the counter ?

Nope. You can use setval, but you have no guarentees.

Think about it. If you had to roll back the counter if the transaction
failed, you would lose concurrency. Every transaction would have to wait
until the previous one finished to find out what number it will get.

Why do people care about holes anyway? I've never understood that...

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