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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index 8cf53855616..7c009d899cc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -10205,12 +10205,11 @@ table2-mapping </indexterm> <para> - This section describes <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s - functions for operating on <firstterm>sequence objects</firstterm>. - Sequence objects (also called sequence generators or just - sequences) are special single-row tables created with <xref + This section describes functions for operating on <firstterm>sequence + objects</firstterm>, also called sequence generators or just sequences. + Sequence objects are special single-row tables created with <xref linkend="sql-createsequence">. - A sequence object is usually used to generate unique identifiers + Sequence objects are commonly used to generate unique identifiers for rows of a table. The sequence functions, listed in <xref linkend="functions-sequence-table">, provide simple, multiuser-safe methods for obtaining successive sequence values from sequence |