Re: custom serial number

Hello

what do you wont to do exactly?

you can try -

create sequence s;
postgres=# create sequence s;
CREATE SEQUENCE
postgres=# select to_char(current_date, 'yyyymmdd') ||
trim(to_char(nextval('s'), '0000'));
?column?
--------------
200811180002
(1 row)

postgres=# select to_char(current_date, 'yyyymmdd') ||
trim(to_char(nextval('s'), '0000'));
?column?
--------------
200811180003
(1 row)

regards
Pavel Stehule

2008/11/18 mahmoud ewiwi <mahmoud_ewiwi(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> hi gurus
> i have a problem in generating serial number with the form yyyymm0000 how can i do that?
>
> Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi
>
> Al-Mahawer
> Hebron- Palestine
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