Re: Auto increment

Am Die, 2003-05-27 um 19.37 schrieb Fontenot, Paul:
> When creating a table how do you make an auto incrementing field? I'm
> using:
>
> Create table hosts (
> id int not null unique primary key,
> ip char(16),
> hostname text
> );
>
> Is there a way to make the host.id field automagicaly increment?

id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY

will be translated into int with auto value automatically

P.S.: Primary Keys are automatically not null

HTH
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