Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in03.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s72.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server From: Charles X-X-Sender: cfisher@bart.rhadmin.org Subject: Re: Autoincrement without a sequence In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.217.82.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s72 1165951443 12.217.82.49 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:24:03 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:24:03 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:24:03 GMT Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:419037 X-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:24:04 EST (text.usenetserver.com) Thanks for the many replies. After a harsh warning to the developer that concurrent inserts would fail very badly, the developer confessed plans for future interactive inserts, so we have abandoned the approach I discussed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- / Charles J. Fisher | /* You are not expected to understand this */ / / chas@syro.org | -- Sixth Edition Unix Source Code Comment / / http://rhadmin.org | / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------