Re: SERIAL type not autoincremented

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when teknet(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl wrote:
> Hello
> i have:
> create table student(
> id SERIAL NOT NULL,
> name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL,
> primary key (id)
> );
>
> and when i try to insert like this:
> insert into student (name) values('me');
> i receive error:
> ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "student_pkey"
>
> Why ? Do i understeand correctly that SERIAL == AUTO_INCREMENT ?
> As far as i remember i used such type in the past and had no problem.
> What do i miss ?

cbbrowne(at)wolfe:~$ psql osdb
Welcome to psql 7.4.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

/* cbbrowne(at)[local]/wolfe osdb=*/ create table student(
/*osdb(#*/id SERIAL NOT NULL,
/*osdb(#*/name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL,
/*osdb(#*/primary key (id)
/*osdb(#*/);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "student_id_seq"
for "serial" column "student.id"
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
"student_pkey" for table "student"
CREATE TABLE
/* cbbrowne(at)[local]/wolfe osdb=*/ insert into student (name)
values('me');
INSERT 19423269 1
/* cbbrowne(at)[local]/wolfe osdb=*/ \q

It sounds as though there's something more going on that you haven't
told us about.

What data was already in that table? If there wasn't anything already
there, there could hardly be a duplicate.
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