On 01/24/2012 04:23 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:23 AM, panam <panam(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> Wow, this is pretty useful. Just to fit it more to my original use case, I
>> used this:
>>
>> CREATE schema schema1;
>> CREATE schema schema2;
>> CREATE TABLE tbl (ID serial primary key,foo varchar,bar varchar); --in
>> public schema
>> CREATE TABLE schema1.tbl (LIKE public.tbl INCLUDING ALL); --draws ids from
>> sequence in public schema
>> CREATE TABLE schema2.tbl (LIKE public.tbl INCLUDING ALL); --draws ids from
>> sequence in public schema
>> INSERT INTO schema1.tbl (foo,bar) VALUES ('asdf','qwer');
>> INSERT INTO schema2.tbl (foo,bar) VALUES ('hello','world');
>> INSERT INTO schema1.tbl (foo,bar) VALUES ('asdf','qwer');
>> INSERT INTO schema2.tbl (foo,bar) VALUES ('hello','world');
>>
>> Thanks, I now consider this my best practice. This way, I don't have to
>> allocate ranges any more a priori :)
> Another quirky way to do it is with domains;
>
> create sequence global_seq;
> create domain gid bigint default nextval('global_seq');
> create table foo (gid gid, f1 text);
> create table bar (gid gid, f2 int);
> etc.
>
> This looks very appealing on the surface but domains have some quirks
> that should give pause. In particular, you can't make arrays of them,
> although you can make arrays of rowtypes that have a domain in them.
>
> Barring domains, you can just manually apply the default instead of
> using a serial type:
>
> create table foo (gid bigint default nextval('global_seq'));
>
> merlin
>
And UUIDs don't work because....?