Re: [GENERAL] Is there an auto incrementing number field?

Ar ha. I see it all now. I tired to figure it out from that rather cryptic
detail in the docs. and couldn't make anything work. Now I know what it
does, I'll try again.

thanks folks
bc

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From: dustin sallings <dustin(at)spy(dot)net>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert(at)chalmers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, 24 June 1999 4:37
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is there an auto incrementing number field?

> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Robert Chalmers wrote:
>
> There has been for a while, it's called serial.
>
> // I'm looking through the 6.5 specs, and wondering if there is an
> // Auto-Incrementing field in this release?
> //
> // of if not, is there a way of achieving this end? So that as I add a new
> // record to a table, it's '#ID' for example is automatically added. 1, 2,
3,
> // 4,... and so on
> //
> // thanks
> // Bob
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