Re: how to prevent generating same clipids

On mán, 2006-04-10 at 22:43 -0700, v.suryaprabha@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>    Now we cannot change the field type. Because already our application
> is running and thousands of records are already entered. we are getting
> same no for clipid when 2 users are entering data at a time. so how to
> solve the problem

create a sequence:
CREATE SEQUENCE clipid_seq
   START WITH somehighenoughnumber

now use that when you allocate ids.
i.e. instead of
  SELECT 1+max(clipid) FROM yourtable
do:
  SELECT nexval(clipid_seq)

gnari