On 23/07/2008 11:01, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 23/07/2008 10:48, admin wrote:
>> 1. Is a SEQUENCE what I use instead of auto_increment?
>
> Yes. The easiest thing is to define the column as type SERIAL - this
> will create the sequence for you and associate it with the column.
> Alternatively, you can create the sequence by hand, create the column as
> an integer type, and then set the default for the column as
I forgot to mention that you'll need to grant SELECT and UPDATE
permissions on the sequence to the user that'll be accessing the table -
this still catches me betimes. :-)
Ray.
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