Re: Auto-increment Numeric Primary keys

Vipin Samtani wrote:
>
> How can I auto-increment numeric primary keys? So on a table called
> "Test1" with fields "ID" and "Name" when I do an INSERT, I only type
>
> INSERT INTO Test1 values ('Bob');
>
> instead of
>
> INSERT INTO Test1 values (1, 'Bob');
>
> Is this implemented in PostgreSQL 7?
>
> -Vipin

CREATE TABLE Test1 (
id SERIAL,
name TEXT
);

INSERT INTO Test1(name) VALUES ('Bob');

SELECT * FROM Test1;

id|name
--+----
1|Bob
(1 row)

Hope that helps,

Mike Mascari