[Dbix-class] Strict sequence primary key

[Ihnen, David]

You're missing the database specific facilities for this - which generally materializes as an 'auto_increment' data type (Sybase derivatives, mysql) modifier or the concept of a 'sequence' (oracle, db2, postgres(I think)) which you create and can query from with the nextval/curval functions. 

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Cravens [mailto:wcravens at cortex-it.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:59 PM
To: dbix-class at lists.scsys.co.uk
Subject: [Dbix-class] Strict sequence primary key

In an effort to create strictly sequential (Incrementing Integer no 
gaps) primary keys my method has traditionally been:

BEGIN;
LOCK table;
SELECT MAX(id) FROM table;
INSERT INTO table...;
COMMIT;

I'm relatively new to DBIC and have not really seen a way to do this 
unless I create a wrapper to handle it.

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks,

Wes

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