RE: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Ansley (UK)
Title: RE: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Um, no, primary keys should not always be opaque.  Technical primary keys should always be opaque.  Relational modelling has been built to exploit primary keys actually being the business

Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Tom Lane
"Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Its not that I care about holes, but if roll back mean to return the DB to > its original status because a foul sql chain command then logically I expect > that everything will roll back like the action was never accorded That's the general rule, bu

Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Its not that I care about holes, but if roll back mean to return the DB to its original status because a foul sql chain command then logically I expect that everything will roll back like the action was never accorded > Why do people care about holes anyway? I've never understood that... > -

Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > You can tell the order anyway. The order doesn't change, it's only that > there may be numbers missing, Please note the message from "Michael Ansley (UK)". If two of more connections get a cache from a sequence and the inserts are 'sporatic'

RE: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Carlos Felipe Zirbes
-feira, 16 de agosto de 2001 09:27 To: Martijn van Oosterhout Cc: Ben-Nes Michael; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Why do people care about holes anyway? I've never understood that... The sin

Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Why do people care about holes anyway? I've never understood that... The single seat syndrome? (It's my database and I'm the only one using it.) Trying to put intelligence into the field? (I can tell the order the entries were made in the t

Re: [GENERAL] Roll Back dont roll back counters

2001-08-16 Thread Richard Huxton
From: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If I design a table with SERIAL type and then try to insert few rows, but > some of the rows are rolled back the roll back process does not roll back > the counter status. > > Is there a way to do a roll back to the counter ? No - sequences (as used