Re: Design question regarding arrays

Sean Davis wrote:
 > I'm a novice, too, but why not look up the value in the sequence and
 > increment it before doing any inserting?  If you are doing all the inserts
 > at the same time (more or less), then you can just use this value in the
 > insert into both tables.  Put all of this inside one transaction.

That won't work if another process is trying to do the same
thing at the same time.  They both get the same value when
they look it up, so there will be an ID collision.

Best regards
   Oliver

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