Re: How do you genrate primary keys?

As I understand, in case of cached sequences, SEQ$ is touched only when you run out of cached values in library cache and a new sequence range has to be allocated.

Tanel.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:39 PM

> That's it. If you didn't use the cache, then it would cause the same
> problem as with normal table-managed sequence numbers. But with cached
> sequence numbers, an application can get a sequence number without
> touching the database (SEQ$) at all.
>
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