On Thu, January 17, 2008 10:15, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > If race conditions are a possible issue, you use a sequence and > increment that until you get a number that isn't used. That way two > clients connecting at the same time can get different, available > numbers. > That is close to the idea that I originally had. I was simply wondering if the built-in sequencer could handle this case or whether I need to roll my own. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly