| From: | chester c young <chestercyoung(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | sql pgsql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: numbering rows on import from file |
| Date: | 2008-05-02 22:33:39 |
| Message-ID: | 369040.10710.qm@web54307.mail.re2.yahoo.com |
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--- Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Now I want to number the rows, adding an id column
> as an autoincrement from a sequence. How should I do the import now
> for the sequence to work -- should I add the id column last, so it
> will not be filled by copy and presumably autoincrement?
use a sequence
restart sequence to 1 before copy
have column id default to nextval('seq')
when doing copy don't have a column matching your id (duh)
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