Jonathan,

J> This is such a good idea, that one wonders why it isn't integrated into
J> Firebird in a transparent way.

I don't know. It looks like autoinc fields to me: few people needs
them and there is a way to do it even if it's not "transparent".

J> I mean, finding out the number of records
J> in a table doesn't seem to me to be such a luxery... :-)

Issuing a select count(*) without a where clause is something that I
do approx. once in a decade. I can live with that. ;-)

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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