On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 15:29 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote:
> "A possible solution for this would be to regenerate the entire column's
> values every time a record gets deleted starting form 1. but then again
> this would be very slow if you have a very large table"
>
> I don't anticipate the table to be more than a few hundred rows - certainly
> fewer than 1,000.
>
> Could you point to some documentation for regenerating a column's values
> other than manual??
>
> Bob
>
I am afraid there is no built-in way to do that.
perhaps you could create a function that:
step1: creates a sequence (with random name)....
step2: update table set field=netval('random_seq_name');
step3: drop sequence...
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Regards,
Gevik Babakhani