| From: | Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle(at)tamay-dogan(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "pgSQL - General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Equivalent for AUTOINCREMENT? |
| Date: | 2008-10-31 13:39:46 |
| Message-ID: | 2f4958ff0810310639occ0bfb0k8eab8ebe56e86a38@mail.gmail.com |
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# create table foo( a SERIAL );
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "foo_a_seq" for serial
column "foo.a"
CREATE TABLE
# \d+ foo
Table "public.foo"
Column | Type | Modifiers | Description
--------+---------+-------------------------------------------------+-------------
a | integer | not null default nextval('foo_a_seq'::regclass) |
Has OIDs: no
AUTOINCREMENT has so many problems, that soon you'll start to love sequences
so much, you'll start to hate mysql's childlish approach to problem solving
:)
Also make sure you read carefuly:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createsequence.html
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