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From Tom Allison
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In response to Re: serial data type  (Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Doug McNaught wrote:
>>Is it realistic to use the serial data type as a KEY?
>
>
> Lots and lots of people do.  If you're just looking for a unique key
> column for a single table, it works fine.
>
> -Doug

This is essentially what I'm looking for.

Any idea how to set up a timestamp=now on every insert/update ?

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