Re: Primary key

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 16:03 +0000, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 14/03/2011 15:56, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> > On 14/03/2011 15:35, Allan Kamau wrote:
> >
> >> CREATE SEQUENCE hy3_pack_seq MINVALUE 1000;
> >> CREATE TABLE hy3_pack
> >> (
> >> hy3_id INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('hy3_pack_seq') -- or hy3_id
> >> BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('hy3_pack_seq')
> >
> > That's what SERIAL does for you, in one go - it's just syntactic sugar
> > for the above.
>
> ....with the exception of the MINVALUE bit, of course... :-)

You can update the dependent sequence that serial creates though.

JD

>
> Ray.
>
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