In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If your purpose in doing this is just to generate unique keys, you should >> be using sequences instead. > I would need 150 separate sequences, because each idsection needs its > own, independent sequence of idthread. What you really seem to need is a counter for each idsection. Depending on how often you need to access the counter value, it might be worthwile to not store the count at all and instead use a single sequence. You can compute the counter value at SELECT time by something like SELECT idsection, ( SELECT count (*) FROM tbl t WHERE idsection = tbl.idsection AND id <= tbl.id ) AS idthread FROM tbl where "id" is the single sequence. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])