From: | "Postgres User" <postgres(dot)developer(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, marcel(dot)beutner <m(dot)beutner(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: newid() in postgres |
Date: | 2007-04-05 03:24:29 |
Message-ID: | b88c3460704042024n497f18edxca83d11b8558f6e2@mail.gmail.com |
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Marcel,
A sequence represents a unique identifier. You can call the function
'nextval' to get the next unique value in the sequence. See related
functions here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-sequence.html
In this code, I get the next sequence, insert it into a table, and
then return the value to the calling function:
DECLARE
nextseq integer;
BEGIN
nextseq := nextval('entry_id_seq');
INSERT INTO my_table (
entry_id,
entry_text,
) VALUES (
nextseq,
p_entry_text, -- input param
);
On 4/4/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> marcel.beutner wrote:
> > I've searched in the groups already, but couldn't find any helpful
> > information - only to use a sequence, which returns just a number and
> > not a unique identifier.
>
> Which properties do your unique identifiers posses that are not
> satisfied by a number returned by a sequence?
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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