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>>>>From the response of people here, I believe my fear is irrational. The fear comes from knowing that there is no way to generate any unused values should the counter somehow skip ahead. I don't know how it would skip ahead; perhaps bug in my program(?).
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>>>You can try to insert a record in a transaction, then rollback. My guess is that the counter would revert together with the transaction.
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>>Each time the counter changes and the value can be read in some way, will NEVER return back.
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>That's why I said "within a transaction" - the new value should be invisible to all until the transaction closes.
I said "read in some way", as can be seen within a transaction, is a way, and a value is consumed.
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