Re: Auto increment

Take a look at the SERIAL data type.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=datatype.htm
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adam

> When creating a table how do you make an auto incrementing field? I'm
> using:
>
> Create table hosts (
> id int not null unique primary key,
> ip char(16),
> hostname text
> );
>
> Is there a way to make the host.id field automagicaly increment?
>
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