Thread: How to have a autoincrement field?

Hi there.

I'm making my first steps on postgreSQL on a Sun Solaris.

With the current database I need a field that is automaticly incremented when data is added.
I looked in the docs, and the mailinglist archive ... could find any suitable ...

Can someone help?


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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Marc Eggenberger wrote:

> With the current database I need a field that is automaticly
> incremented when data is added. I looked in the docs, and the
> mailinglist archive ... could find any suitable ...

I suppose there may be an easier/better way than this. But what I do when
I create the table I create a sequence, then have a field which
automatically increments the field ... Like so:

CREATE SEQUENCE game_id;

CREATE TABLE games (
        game_id INT DEFAULT nextval('game_id') PRIMARY KEY,
        game_title varchar (250),
    etc....
    )

Hope that helps.

Kevin



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