RE: [SQL] auto_increment?

How about using "serial" in the place of "auto_increment"? such as

CREATE TABLE table (
id serial,
name text,
email text);

I guess you already know this but i thought i'd just mention it anyway,
using "table" for table name wouldn't work ;-)
Thinh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel [mailto:rbp(at)pobox(dot)com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:45 AM
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] auto_increment?
>
>
> Hi.
> I recently had to port a script from using Postgres to MySQL.
> In Postgres, when I have to use a unique id, I create a sequence
> and call nextval('sequence') each time I insert a new line in
> the table.
> MySQL doesn't have sequences (as far as the
> documentation shows).
> So I had to look for an alternative. I found an atribute
> "auto_increment"
> which seems pretty interesting. If I do
> CREATE TABLE table (
> id int4 primary key auto_increment,
> name text,
> email text);
>
> It automatically assigns the next value when I do
> INSERT INTO table (nome, email) values ('My name',
> 'me(at)somewhere(dot)com');
>
> When I noticed MySQL didn't have sequences, I cursed a
> lot. When I
> found this out, though, I kept wondering if Postgres also had
> it, but I
> couldn't find any mention in the documentation. Does anyone
> know if something
> similar exists? Am I doing thins the hard way? Is there any
> other way of
> automagically getting unique ids?
> TIA,
>
>
> rbp
>
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