On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:11 PM, David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:23:31AM +0200, Marco Bizzarri wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I need to keep a numer of counters in my application; my counters >> are currently stored in a table: >> >> name | next_value | year >> >> The counters must be progressive numbers with no holes in between >> them, and they must restart from 1 every year. > > Here's a backward-compatible way to do this: > > http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/130.php > > Cheers, > David. > -- > David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > David, thanks for pointing me to such a complete solution. These work both on READ-COMMITTED and SERIALIZABLE isolation levels, am I right? Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/