Re: Global Sequences

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Global Sequences
Date: 2012-10-17 08:20:58
Message-ID: 507E6A6A.9090902@bluegap.ch
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Tom,

On 10/16/2012 06:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I challenge you to find anything in the SQL standard that suggests that
> sequences have any nonlocal behavior. If anything, what you propose
> violates the standard, it doesn't make us follow it more closely.

If you look at a distributed database as a transparent equivalent of a
single-node system, I'd say the SQL standard applies to the entire
distributed system. From that point of view, I'd rather argue that any
"local-only" behavior violates the standard.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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