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3 | 3 | <chapter id="functions"> |
4 | 4 | <title>Functions and Operators</title> |
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8189 | 8189 | </indexterm> |
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8191 | 8191 | <para> |
8192 | | - This section describes <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s functions |
8193 | | - for operating on <firstterm>sequence objects</firstterm>. |
8194 | | - Sequence objects (also called sequence generators or |
8195 | | - just sequences) are special single-row tables created with |
8196 | | - <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command>. A sequence object is usually used to |
8197 | | - generate unique identifiers for rows of a table. The sequence functions, |
8198 | | - listed in <xref linkend="functions-sequence-table">, |
8199 | | - provide simple, multiuser-safe methods for obtaining successive |
8200 | | - sequence values from sequence objects. |
| 8192 | + This section describes <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s |
| 8193 | + functions for operating on <firstterm>sequence objects</firstterm>. |
| 8194 | + Sequence objects (also called sequence generators or just |
| 8195 | + sequences) are special single-row tables created with <xref |
| 8196 | + linkend="sql-createsequence" endterm="sql-createsequence-title">. |
| 8197 | + A sequence object is usually used to generate unique identifiers |
| 8198 | + for rows of a table. The sequence functions, listed in <xref |
| 8199 | + linkend="functions-sequence-table">, provide simple, multiuser-safe |
| 8200 | + methods for obtaining successive sequence values from sequence |
| 8201 | + objects. |
8201 | 8202 | </para> |
8202 | 8203 |
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8203 | 8204 | <table id="functions-sequence-table"> |
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