Re: CREATE TABLE initial value for PRIMARY KEY

From: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
To: "Maurice Yarrow" <yarrow(at)best(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE initial value for PRIMARY KEY
Date: 2006-10-27 19:10:03
Message-ID: D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F8944154757DCF7@postal.corporate.connx.com
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Use a sequence and set the initial value of the sequence.

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> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Maurice Yarrow
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE initial value for PRIMARY KEY
>
> Hello Postgres community
>
> Is there a formal way to set an initial value for a PRIMARY KEY
> when CREATE TABLE ? (This would be some large number,
> typically.)
>
> Or is it only possible to do this by first creating the table, and
> then inserting a bogus record forcing the initial value by
> specification (and then, presumably, deleting this bogus
> record) ?
>
> Maurice Yarrow
>
>
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