-
+
Functions and Operators
- This section describes
PostgreSQL's functions
- for operating on sequence objects.
- Sequence objects (also called sequence generators or
- just sequences) are special single-row tables created with
- CREATE SEQUENCE. A sequence object is usually used to
- generate unique identifiers for rows of a table. The sequence functions,
- listed in ,
- provide simple, multiuser-safe methods for obtaining successive
- sequence values from sequence objects.
+ This section describes
PostgreSQL's
+ functions for operating on sequence objects.
+ Sequence objects (also called sequence generators or just
+ sequences) are special single-row tables created with
+ linkend="sql-createsequence" endterm="sql-createsequence-title">.
+ A sequence object is usually used to generate unique identifiers
+ for rows of a table. The sequence functions, listed in
+ linkend="functions-sequence-table">, provide simple, multiuser-safe
+ methods for obtaining successive sequence values from sequence
+ objects.