If I have a set of tables and I set their primary keys all to the same 
sequence, as in 

create sequence common_seq;

create table alpha (
        ID      integer primary key default nextval('common_seq),
        other_field text
);

create table beta (
        ID      integer primary key default nextval('common_seq),
        other_field real
);
create table gamma (
        ID      integer primary key default nextval('common_seq),
        other_field oid
);

Would this guarantee that each value of ID in any row of any of the 
tables would be unique amongst all of them?

Would I get the same effect by creating a table like this:

create table common (
        ID      serial primary key
);

and then having alpha, beta and gamma inherit from it?

-- 

Bruce




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