A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am Tue, dem 18.11.2008, um 1:09:44 -0800 mailte mahmoud ewiwi folgendes:
>> hi gurus
>> i have a problem in generating serial number with the form yyyymm0000 how can i do that?
>
> test=# create temporary sequence foo;
> CREATE SEQUENCE
> test=# select to_char(current_date,
> 'yyyymm')||trim(to_char(nextval('foo'),'09999'));
> ?column?
> -------------
> 20081100001
> (1 row)
>
Thats nice. You should now take care about changing months.
I guess a cron job can do the job restarting the sequence the first day
of the month. (If we are talking about Unix/Linux, off course)
Gerardo
