Re: serial

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Gregory Williamson <Gregory(dot)Williamson(at)digitalglobe(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gustavo Rosso <grosso(at)sadaic(dot)org(dot)ar>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: serial
Date: 2008-12-04 18:57:35
Message-ID: 4938281F.1050309@iol.ie
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On 04/12/2008 14:47, Gregory Williamson wrote:

> With respect, sir, let me point out that Informix usage says to insert a
> zero to trigger a serial column, so don't be indicting Gustavo on MySQL

So what do you do if you just want to insert a zero? - just curious...

In fairness, I suppose you wouldn't often be doing this on an
auto-incrementing column....but just say you did - how do you do it?

Ray.

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