Re: How to make the key in table increase automatically?

From: "Anthony E (dot) Greene" <agreene(at)pobox(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to make the key in table increase automatically?
Date: 2000-08-28 09:41:01
Message-ID: 20000828054101.A18437@cp5340
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On 24 Aug 2000 14:24 Mathias Göthberg wrote:
>How to make the key in a table increase automatically with 1 every time a
>new row is added?
>
>That is, when I add a new row with all attributes except the primary key,
I
>want the primary key in that row to have a unique number that is 1 higher
>than the previous row.

Use data type 'serial'.

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