Next PID value without incrementing

[Serhiy Polyakov]

I need to get next PID value. When I use this:

$next_pid = Fedora_Item::get_next_PID_in_namespace($name_space);

it returns the value but it also increments highestID in fedora MySQL
table pidGen by one.

Is there any Fedora/Islandora function that gets value without incrementing?

Otherwise I need to write PHP/MySQL to access table pidGen directly
and get highestID for the $name_space.

Thanks,
Serhiy

[Alan Stanley]

Heisenberg's uncertainty principal answers this one for us - the act of observation affects the outcome.  :-)

The increment is deliberate, it stops two users from trying to create objects with the same pid.

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