Re: automatic creation of oid - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: automatic creation of oid
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Msg-id 1046475917.1700.15.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to automatic creation of oid  (Detlef Jockheck <detlef@jockheck.de>)
Responses Re: automatic creation of oid  (Detlef Jockheck <detlef@jockheck.de>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:10, Detlef Jockheck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to postgresql. How can automatically create unique object identifyer
> during insertion of new data. I 've seen that a can use a sequence, but I
> think there must be another way?

Why must there?  Using a sequence is the correct way to do it.  To
automate the process, declare a column of SERIAL type.  (SERIAL is
shorthand for creating a sequence and attaching it to the column's
default.)

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