Re: REF: Data Migration MS SQL Server 7.0 to PostgreSQL 8.4 on Linux

Luis Dominguez <bcld(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I am now in the process of migrating a database from a driver
> ms sql server 7.0 to postgresql 8.4 vesion but I have a problem
> with the data type (timestamp) SQL Server 7.0 that refers to a
> single binary field that is updated randomly by row, and this
> field is paramount in my application for purposes of monitoring,
> postgresql 8.4 now also have the same timestamp but refers to
> other data (date + time), I investigated other types of data such
> as (serial, uuid, xid, byte etc) in postgresql and not get
> something just to replace it, I thought of a function that do
> something similar but not yet tried, and of course I turn to you
> to see if I can lend a hand with this rut that I have right now

Did you consider creating a SEQUENCE used by a trigger on update or
insert of a row?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createsequence.html

-Kevin