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Anderson, Hans (hans@marsweb.com)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 07:56:44 -0700 (MST) 

Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 07:56:44 -0700 (MST)
From: "Anderson, Hans" <hans@marsweb.com>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] _seq feature request
Message-Id: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970108075511.1002C-100000@deimos.marsweb.com>

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Randy Jay Yarger wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Doug Salot wrote:
>
>> The "interesting" feature about _seq is that it is unique for a table.
>> I think what you really want is just an atomic increment. mysql
>> allows you to do things like "update foo set counter=counter+1"
>> which does what you want, but I don't remember if mSQL has this
>> feature (yet).
>
>I would bear Bambi's child if he did/would add this feature.
>(Metaphorically speaking of course. ;) )

I'd offer to be an uncle, or something, as I would like this as well. I do
remember seeing the new 2.0 features list that this is in the works, but
there was a patch to 1.0.16 that would do this, it's in the 1.0 FAQ, but
the link is dead. I looked high and low, but to no avail.

Hans

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