On 11/02/10 09:06, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Luis Dominguez<bcld(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> I am now in the process of migrating a database from a driver
>> ms sql server 7.0 to postgresql 8.4 vesion but I have a problem
>> with the data type (timestamp) SQL Server 7.0 that refers to a
>> single binary field that is updated randomly by row, and this
>> field is paramount in my application for purposes of monitoring,
>> postgresql 8.4 now also have the same timestamp but refers to
>> other data (date + time), I investigated other types of data such
>> as (serial, uuid, xid, byte etc) in postgresql and not get
>> something just to replace it, I thought of a function that do
>> something similar but not yet tried, and of course I turn to you
>> to see if I can lend a hand with this rut that I have right now
>>
>
> Did you consider creating a SEQUENCE used by a trigger on update or
> insert of a row?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createsequence.html
>
> -Kevin
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timestamp type in SQL Server is like ROWID in Oracle, and as Kevin said,
you could use the serial type as a replacement.
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