On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:18:23AM +0100, Christian Kratzer wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Eric B. Ridge wrote: > <snip/> > ><long pause> > > > >hahaha, *blush*. I could just use "now()", right? pg8.1 docs say that > >now()/CURRENT_TIMESTAMP "return the start time of the current transaction; > >their values do not change during the transaction". I could use a > >composite of (now(), GetTopTransctionId()) to assume batch uniqueness. > > Or use a touple of (now(), pg_backend_pid()) for this kind of stuff. > pg_backend_pid() should sufficiently disambiguate now() to make obove > touple unique. That doesn't provide very good protection against the system clock moving backwards though. I suspect you'd be better doing a tuple of now() and a 2 byte sequence. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
