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From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: system maintained keys
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Msg-id 200110170649.f9H6noPo012040@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to system maintained keys  ("Stefan Lindner" <lindner@visionet.de>)
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"Stefan Lindner" wrote:
  >Is there any way to get system maintained keys from postgres? e.g. to
  >have a table with a primary key column (varchar or int) and let postgres
  >chose the next unique value for this column?

The SERIAL data type does this.  It is an INTEGER with a sequence attached.

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