Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Tom Lane írta:
>
>>> - unique index checks are done in two steps
>>>   to avoid inflating the sequence if a unique index check
>>>   is failed that doesn't reference the IDENTITY column
>>>
>>
>> This is just not acceptable --- there is nothing in the standard that
>> requires such behavior,
>
> But also there is nothing that would say not to do it. :-)
> And this way, there is be nothing that would separate
> IDENTITY from regular SERIALs only the slightly
> later value generation. The behaviour I proposed
> would be a big usability plus over the standard
> with less possible skipped values.
>
>>  and I dislike the wide-ranging kluges you
>> introduced to support it.
>
> Can you see any other way to avoid skipping sequence values
> as much as possible?



This doesn't strike me as a sensible design goal. Why not just live with
skipped values?

cheers

andrew