Re: Using a postgres table to maintain unique id?

>However, I also use Postgres (7.0.2) throughout this
>application and it seems cleaner to me to keep the current
>id value in a table and just use postgres to provide access
>(with a trigger function to increment the id on access).

Why not a sequence?

>Is this reasonable?  Is it fast?  (I need 10 or more IDs
>generated each second.)  Can I avoid having the table
>gradually fill with "old" rows for this entry, and this
>avoid the need to run VACUUM ANALYZE periodically?

The only problem I have had with this type of thing is when a number gets
deleted, it does not get recycled.

Joshua Drake


>
>Any tips on how to implement the trigger would be
>appreciated.  (Is it possible to generate an int8 sequence
>value?)
>
>Thanks!
>--
>Steve Wampler-  SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
>swampler@noao.edu
>

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