Re: serial column

Yes

But the only way of insuring that the serial starts at 1 and is sequential
is to recreate the table.

I've tried creating and dropping the table but this generates other issues
which I haven't been able to resolve.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "Bob Pawley" <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca>
Cc: "Postgresql" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] serial column

> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:50 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote:
>> I need to develop a serial column that always starts at 1 and is
>> sequential even after deletes.
>>
>> Any ideas???
>>
>
> Did you try the:
>
> create table tbl
> (
> id SERIAL
> );
>
> or even with primary key...
>
> create table tbl
> (
> id SERIAL primary key
> );
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Gevik Babakhani
>
>
>
>
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