On Monday 19 September 2011 08:19:18 Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 19 Sep 2011, at 2:57, Anibal David Acosta wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I have a table with a PK, this table has a lot of insert per second (100 > > ~ 150 insert /sec) Sometimes, a get a duplicate key error, but ID is > > generated from a function (VOLATILE). This function has just one line > > (select nextval('XXX')) > > > > Is possible that this function return same ID for two diff call? > > > > Postgres version is 9.0 > > > > Thanks! > > Very unlikely. > Are you certain that you're not just hitting pre-existing rows that have > ID's higher than the starting ID of your sequence? Or that there isn't > another process inserting rows without using the sequence? Also, why wrap nextval('XXX') instead of using it directly ? Unless your function does more than "select nextval('XXX')", you're just making your code harder to read and slightly slower. -- Vincent de Phily -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general