From: | Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com> |
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To: | Markus Jais <mjais(at)web(dot)de> |
Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: autoincrement??? |
Date: | 2001-07-12 21:58:13 |
Message-ID: | 20010712145755.I86214-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com |
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Look at the SERIAL type and the CREATE SEQUENCE documentation.
-philip
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Markus Jais wrote:
> hi
> I have the following problem:
>
> I create the following table:
>
> CREATE TABLE address (
> address_id int PRIMARY KEY ,
> street VARCHAR(40),
> zipcode INT,
> city VARCHAR(40),
> country VARCHAR(40)
> );
>
> Now, I want the address_id to get incremented
> every time I insert a value into the table.
>
> for example:
> INSERT INTO address VALUES('mainstreet 12', 85253, 'munich', 'Germany')
> ;
> without specifying a value for the id.
>
> a friend told me, that this works in MySQL with something
> like "auto_increment". I do not know much about MySQL so I do not
> know if this is true.
>
> Can you please tell me, how to do this in postgresql????
>
> thanks a lot
> regards
> markus
>
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