Re: [SQL] automatic incrementation

Nuchanard Chiannilkulchai ha scritto:

> hello,
>
> I have a table with the field 'id' which i would like to increment at
> each insert automatically.
> The idea is to create a function which determines the max(id) and then a
> rule to insert instead
> the real insertion instruction, with the next id value.
>
> -- table
> create table toto (
> id int4 primary key,
> project char(8) not null,
> comments text
> );
> insert into toto values (1,'PTest','ndfjSHJG');
> insert into toto values (2,'PTest','ndfjSHJG');
> insert into toto values (3,'PTest','ndfjSHJG');
>
> -- function
> create function nextid(toto) returns int4
> as ' select max($1.id)+1 as id ; '
> language 'sql';
>
> **** ERROR: type id lookup of 12 failed
> This is my first problem
>
> -- rule
> create rule r_id as on insert to toto
> do instead
> insert into toto (id, project, comments) values (nextid(),
> new.project, new.comments);
>
> **** The next problem may be the rule writing !!!
> I would like to have , even some other suggestions to make it works.
> I can't use a sequence table because I've already one in the database.
>
> Thanks,
> Nuch

What about a SERIAL data type ?

create table toto (
id SERIAL,
project char(8) not null,
comments text);

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