On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> When I noticed MySQL didn't have sequences, I cursed a lot. When I
>found this out, though, I kept wondering if Postgres also had it, but I
>couldn't find any mention in the documentation. Does anyone know if something
>similar exists? Am I doing thins the hard way? Is there any other way of
>automagically getting unique ids?
> TIA,
Use the serial datatype. It automatically creates a sequence for you that
increments each time you do an insert,
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-David Rugge
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