On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 15:29 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote: > "A possible solution for this would be to regenerate the entire column's > values every time a record gets deleted starting form 1. but then again > this would be very slow if you have a very large table" > > I don't anticipate the table to be more than a few hundred rows - certainly > fewer than 1,000. > > Could you point to some documentation for regenerating a column's values > other than manual?? > > Bob > I am afraid there is no built-in way to do that. perhaps you could create a function that: step1: creates a sequence (with random name).... step2: update table set field=netval('random_seq_name'); step3: drop sequence... -- Regards, Gevik Babakhani