On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:44, Jean-Christophe Roux wrote: > Hello, > I have a table with and id field (primary key) which default value is > the result of a sequence (increment explicitly set to 1). > To my surprise, the real increment on insert is the total number of > rows of the table. For instance, with 41 rows and a sequence > last_value of 1141, the next insert row will have a value of 1182. It > is not a big problem but I don't like skipping and wasting values in a > sequence. Also, I'd like to understand what's going on! > If someone could give me a clue that wold be greatly appreciated > thanks Have you got some kind of trigger or rule on this table that could be causing such behaviour?