Re: SERIAL type - auto-increment grouped by other field

One possible implementation of a two level numbering outline
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:44:01AM +0100, Paulovi? Michal wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I have problem with SERIAL field type (or sequence functionality).
> I have table with three columns - ID, IDS, NAME.
> I want auto-increment IDS grouped by ID.
> Example:
> 1, 1, Ferdo
> 1, 2, John
> 2, 1, Martin
> 1, 3, Elvira
> 2, 2, Georgia
>
> but...
> when I use IDS - SERIAL and when I create UNIQUE (ID, IDS) result is:
> 1, 1, Ferdo
> 1, 2, John
> 2, 3, Martin
> 1, 4, Elvira
> 2, 5, Georgia
>
> where i make misstake??? how can i do it??? in documentation there is
> description only for one auto-increment column. I didn't find auto increment as
> I described upper. Do you have any idea how can I do it???
>
> tnx a lot
>
>
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