Zavier,
In the future, cross-post this sort of request to pgsql-novice. More of
us DB Engine / Query Parser developers subscribe to that list than this
one.
> Fetch a SERIAL field (ie. record_id) and get the
> highest value currently stored (ie. 1000), increment
> the value by 1 and store a record that will have the
> same value (1001) in record_id. So there must be a way
> with concurrency control.
>
> I went through the manuals and found the solution with
> NEXTVAL('serial'), but you have to create a sequence
> for that, and I don't know if it is the right way to
> do for what I want.
Well, that depends on what you want to do, don't it? How about
describing what you're trying to accomplish rather than making us guess?
:-)
-Josh
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