</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