Just do
INSERT INTO ROUTE VALUES('10/10/1999') ;
It will automatically populate the next value.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:30:13PM +0100, Alex Dovlecel wrote:
> Hello all
> If this is too trivial... sorry. :o(((
>
> I have created a table with the following command:
>
> CREATE TABLE ROUTE
> (
> ID SERIAL ,
> START DATE ,
> PRIMARY KEY ( ID )
> ) ;
>
> And it worked just fine. But if I call:
> INSERT INTO ROUTE VALUES(10, '10/10/1999') ;
> it ads a record but the id is 10. Is this the correct behaviour for the
> SERIAL type? I was hoping it will be 1 and ignore the one that I set.
>
> If this is the normal behaviour, how can I make it ignore the 10 and place
> the next id?
>
> Tx
> dovle
>
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