Use the Serial type for address_id.
And you should read the Manuals ! :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Jais" <mjais@web.de>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:20 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] autoincrement???
> hi
> I have the following problem:
>
> I create the following table:
>
> CREATE TABLE address (
> address_id int PRIMARY KEY ,
> street VARCHAR(40),
> zipcode INT,
> city VARCHAR(40),
> country VARCHAR(40)
> );
>
> Now, I want the address_id to get incremented
> every time I insert a value into the table.
>
> for example:
> INSERT INTO address VALUES('mainstreet 12', 85253, 'munich', 'Germany')
> ;
> without specifying a value for the id.
>
> a friend told me, that this works in MySQL with something
> like "auto_increment". I do not know much about MySQL so I do not
> know if this is true.
>
> Can you please tell me, how to do this in postgresql????
>
> thanks a lot
> regards
> markus
>
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