Re: auto increment primary key - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Frank Joerdens
Subject Re: auto increment primary key
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Msg-id 20020405123039.A3241@superfly.archi-me-des.de
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In response to auto increment primary key  (impala <bhnnc@yahoo.co.uk>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:21:19AM -0800, impala wrote:
> I created a table, want the integer/varchar primary
> key column to be incremented automatically when
> inserted a new row. How do I define the table to do
> that? I tried AUTO_INCREMENT and INCREMENT but
> postgres accept none of them.

create table foo (
bar    serial primary key,
 . . .

This implies the creation of a special table called a sequence which
does the auto-incrementing.

Regards, Frank

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