On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:46:42 -0700, Dennis Gearon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is that, anyway, and why should it be?
Because it reduces contention by giving each backend its own pool
of sequence values. But until you call nextval a backend won't
have any values reserved.
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TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
joining column's datatypes do not match
