On 14/03/2011 15:35, Allan Kamau wrote:
> CREATE SEQUENCE hy3_pack_seq MINVALUE 1000;
> CREATE TABLE hy3_pack
> (
> hy3_id INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('hy3_pack_seq') -- or hy3_id
> BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('hy3_pack_seq')
That's what SERIAL does for you, in one go - it's just syntactic sugar
for the above. Read all about it here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
Ray.
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