Re: PRIMARY KEY

Thanks alot Mario. It did exactly what i wanted. I shall also take alook at the link you gave for more details..

Shavonne Wijesinghe

----- Original Message -----
From: M.P.Dankoor
To: Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] PRIMARY KEY

Hello,

Is it possible to redesign your table as follows:

create table Mod48_00_2007 (
ID text,
N_GEN serial not null,
FORMSTORE text,
COD_NOTATIO text,
PA_COGNOME text,
constraint pk_Mod48_00_2007 primary key (N_GEN)
);

Your insert simply becomes:

INSERT INTO MOD48_00_2007 (ID, FORMSTORE, COD_NOTAIO, PA_COGNOME) VALUES ('192168217200737122012', '', '00128', 'DE MARTINIS')

Do note that you do not refer to the N_GEN column, it will use the next value, please refer to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
for more information.

Mario

Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote:
Hello

I have created a table
CREATE TABLE MOD48_00_2007 ( ID text, N_GEN int PRIMARY KEY, FORMSTORE text, COD_NOTAIO text, PA_COGNOME text);

And i insert the rows via a form in ASP. When the form loads i have a functin that goes and gets the value of the field N_GEN adds 1 to it and shows it to the user.
The problem is when i have 2 users working at the same time.

For example the last value in my field N_GEN is 2
When both the users A and B loads the form (ASP page) it sees N_GEN = 3 :)

So they fill in the form and user A clicks on the button OK and the record has been inserted with N_GEN = 3. But when the user B clicks on the button the record is not inserted because it has the same key "3"

INSERT INTO MOD48_00_2007 (ID, N_GEN, FORMSTORE, COD_NOTAIO, PA_COGNOME) VALUES ('192168217200737122012', '3', '', '00128', 'DE MARTINIS')

Is there any way i can do this automatically? i mean maybe i have to use someother property instead of "Primary Key" ??

Thanks

Shavonne Wijesinghe