Re: Exhaused sequence

  • From: Steven Patenaude <spatenau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Oracle-L (E-mail)" <Oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:59:45 -0600

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:02:25 -0600, Knight, Jon <jknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.  And, Jared ... I guess I should
> give him a break, but I can only pay $1.99 per week.
>
>   We discovered that the application code already checks for an existing
> record with the same sequence before inserts, so we've just recreated the
> sequence with a sufficiently low starting value to fill in the gaps.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

Oh, that's no fun!  I wanted to see how the suggestions ended up
working in production.

Negative numbers really tickled my funnybone.  "What do you mean I'm
customer negative 50832?!?"

Steven

ps I hate forgetting to "reply all".
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