Re: Detecting autoincrement columns

From: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "FarjadFarid(ChkNet)" <farjad(dot)farid(at)checknetworks(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Detecting autoincrement columns
Date: 2015-09-01 23:19:52
Message-ID: CANu8Fix__Z6v3iuWBLuOw1eWTSPLw5kBZ78HM0wp80Ep_FkZLQ@mail.gmail.com
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Try this:

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE UPPER(column_default) LIKE 'NEXTVAL%'
ORDER BY 1, 2, 3;

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "FarjadFarid\(ChkNet\)" <farjad(dot)farid(at)checknetworks(dot)com> writes:
> > Can someone please direct me as how to detect columns (serial) with
> > autoincrement option ?
>
> They have a default that depends on a nextval() call.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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