[fpc-pascal] bitwise generator

[Zaher Dirkey]

You can increase the Generator by its value, but be sure the first
value of this generator is 1

select gen_id("GenAccID", gen_id("GenAccID", 0)) from rdb$database


On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:00 PM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> I wanted to do it using Firebird instead of my Pascal code.. now I
> understand thanks to you, that I need to do it using stored procedure.
>
> Thanks,
> Ido
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ik writes:
>>
>>
>>> I wish to create a firebird generator that does bitwise  generation
>>> rather then ordinal generator.
>>>
>>> I mean:
>>> 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 etc..
>>>
>>> Does anyone have knowledge how to create such generation in firebird ?
>>
>> I am not clear what you are trying to do.
>> You are trying to generate the sequence above, that much I get.
>> However, is it a pascal program which will be a firebird stored procedure?
>>
>> The algorithm to generate the sequence is trivial so I don't quite follow
>> which part you are having problems with. The generation? The creation of the
>> firebird stored procedure?
>>
>> If the question is how to generate the sequence in Firebird and not use
>> FPC, then the answer is that you need to have some sort of stored procedure.
>> You could even just have a table with the values.
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