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> -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:22 AM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Repository auditing with Oracle > > Paulo Soares wrote: > > If I assume that there's only one writer the sequence > > can even be generated internally by the cvsnt app and do > away with all > > this identity need. > > You cannot make that assumption - that's why you need the atomicity. > You need to be able to get an ID for an inserted row in a manner that > always returns the correct one no matter how many writers > there are on > the database. > That's why the sentence begins with an "if". Paulo