From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Luis Dominguez <bcld@hotmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-es-ayuda@postgresql.org <pgsql-es-ayuda@postgresql.org>
To: vepug@postgresql.org <vepug@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: REF: Data Migration MS SQL Server 7.0 to PostgreSQL 8.4 on Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:06:29 -0600
Message-ID: <4B73C895020000250002F180@gw.wicourts.gov> (raw)
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Luis Dominguez <bcld@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am now in the process of migrating a database from a driver
> ms sql server 7.0 to postgresql 8.4 vesion but I have a problem
> with the data type (timestamp) SQL Server 7.0 that refers to a
> single binary field that is updated randomly by row, and this
> field is paramount in my application for purposes of monitoring,
> postgresql 8.4 now also have the same timestamp but refers to
> other data (date + time), I investigated other types of data such
> as (serial, uuid, xid, byte etc) in postgresql and not get
> something just to replace it, I thought of a function that do
> something similar but not yet tried, and of course I turn to you
> to see if I can lend a hand with this rut that I have right now
Did you consider creating a SEQUENCE used by a trigger on update or
insert of a row?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createsequence.html
-Kevin
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