Re: sequence pool

We had a situation like this - we wanted to get a large batch of sequences at once with one "trip" to the database. We used a stored procedure that took an argument "how many do you want" - and it used an execute immedate select nextval into an array and passed the array back.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:00:24 -0800, you wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>is there a smart way to generate IDs in chunks?
>
>getting an ID with nextval is perfectly ok most of the time, but sometimes
>the application would need to generate a pool of IDs and keep them for later
>use
>
>as I can't manipulate the currval of the sequence, I wander what the best
>solution would be
>
>
>thanx,
>
> Marin
>
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