On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Matt Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 2 > The lower the number the more severe it is. > > Short Description > Sequence currupted on recovery after kill -9 > > Long Description > If you create a file with an implied sequence and do a couple of inserts, then do a >kill -9, when you start up again, the sequence will have a corrupted next_value >field. In the example, the value of last_value is 4 before the kill -9 and 34 when >it comes back up. >
The purpose of a sequence is not to insure that the numbers are consecutive, only to insure that they are unique. If you have failed inserts, you will see holes also. I don't know off the top of my head how to do consecutive numbers. Maybe only with a table lock. - robert ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
