Hello postgresql'ers (how do you pronounce that?).
Suppose i have the following sequence, table and index:
CREATE SEQUENCE stuff_seq;
CREATE TABLE stuff ( id INTEGER DEFAULT NEXTVAL('stuff_seq') NOT NULL, name TEXT, number
INTEGER
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX stuff_id ON tabel(id);
Then to properly insert rows i have to
INSERT INTO tabel VALUES (NEXTVAL('tabel_seq'), "sometext", 123);
I can't just
INSERT INTO tabel VALUES (NULL, "something", 123);
Then what is the point of the DEFAULT clause? In other words: How do I
get away with not specifying anything for id? And how (if
possible/recommendable) do I force the id value to be nothing but
NEXTVAL('stuff_seq'), ie. not just an arbitrary number?
In short I want to emulate MySQL's way of doing
CREATE TABLE( id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name TEXT, int INT, UNIQUE(id)
);
I hope I made myself sufficiently clear.
Thank you for your time.
PS.
Where can I get more information about the REFERENCES keyword and when
will it be fully working in Postgres?
PPS.
Are there any books out there that cover Postgresql?
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Hroi Sigurdsson
hroi@ninja.dk
