Re: [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:05 PM, venkat <ven(dot)tammineni(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> ALTER TABLE Demotable ALTER COLUMN gid
> SET DEFAULT nextval('serial'::regclass);
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> It is saying that ..serial does not exist...is that true ?
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Please avoid sending emails to the personal email addresses but use the
community mailing lists for that.

For the error you mentioned please follow the steps I mentioned in my last
email as you are doing it the wrong way.

Create a sequence first and then you can assign that sequence to this
column. You can not assign SERIAL like this, it has to be a sequence name in
there.

Shoaib Mir
http://shoaibmir.wordpress.com/