Benjamin, Are you sure the sequence is the only source of the values of the primary key field of all records in this table, that no records may have been inserted using primary key field values generated from sources other than the sequence. Allan. --- Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I have a large table which uses a sequence for > column which is defined as the primary key. > > Our systems is a real time data acquisition > system, so we have "insert" statements going through > it wrapped inside stored procedure. > > > Every once in a while I get an inserio error on a > violation of a unique constraint on the primary key. > > Let's see that stored procedure ... > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please > send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to > majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list > cleanly > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com