Re: No serial type

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Connah <simon(dot)n(dot)connah(at)btopenworld(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No serial type
Date: 2008-11-18 17:40:59
Message-ID: 4922FE2B.9070603@iol.ie
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On 18/11/2008 17:37, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> create table a (i int primary key, info text);
> create sequence a_i_seq;
> alter table a alter column i set default nextval('a_i_seq');

You'll also need to grant SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the sequence
to the user that'll be INSERTing into the table.....this catches me
regularly. :-)

Ray.

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