Thread: how to create field auto increas value

how to create field auto increas value

From
"gunartha.nyoman"
Date:
Dear All,
 
I am trying to create table which have one field auto increas value like autonumber in ms access.
My question is how to create this auto increas field.
 
Thank a lot for your attention

Regards,
Nyoman/Bali
 
 

Re: how to create field auto increas value

From
Phillip Smith
Date:
Look at the "serial" data type in the documentation.
~p

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:49 +0700, gunartha.nyoman wrote:
Dear All,
 
I am trying to create table which have one field auto increas value like autonumber in ms access.
My question is how to create this auto increas field.
 
Thank a lot for your attention

Regards,
Nyoman/Bali

 


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Re: how to create field auto increas value

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
gunartha.nyoman wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to create table which have one field auto increas value like autonumber in ms access.
> My question is how to create this auto increas field.

create table foo (id serial);

also see currval(), nextval()

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thank a lot for your attention
>
> Regards,
> Nyoman/Bali
>
>
>


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