Thank you Stephan Szabo,
I removed additional information from parenthesis and
it worked.
What I wanted to store is a number (e.g:15099404)
which is a publication ID from PubMed (medical litt.
database). This number I wanted to use further to
build queries to extract the publication linked to
that number.
My collegue suggested that I could store that number
as a string too because I will not be doing any
calculations on that number.
Do you have any comments.
Thanks
Kumar.
--- Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kumar S wrote:
>
> > Dear group,
> > Could you please suggest if my sql syntax is wrong
> for
> > creating the table:
> > my sql statements:
> > create table EXPERIMENT
> > (
> > exp_id serial,
> > exp_name varchar(32) not null,
> > con_id serial references
> > contacts(con_id),
> > exp_type varchar(32) not null,
> > exp_desc varchar(64),
> > exp_pmid integer(30) not null,
> > exp_rawdata_url varchar(32),
> > constraint experiment_pk primary
> > key(exp_id)
> > );
> >
> >
> > When I compile this I get the following error:
> > psql:/home/sk/temp/postgres/exp.sql:11: ERROR:
> syntax
> > error at or near "(" at character 200
> >
> > What is wrong with my code.
>
> The type INTEGER doesn't take additional information
> in parens.
> What range of values were you trying to hold?
>
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