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From: Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
To: Premil Agarwal <preagarw@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: GenGUID (AutoNumber) in postgres
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:53:33 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Premil Agarwal <preagarw@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a database that was migrated from Access. I am having trouble porting
> "AutoNumber" datatype. The column that is of type "AutoNumber" is suppose to
> Unique ID (PK) for that table. Internally it uses GenGUID API in access to
> generate the unique ID.
>
> Any ideas on how to port this functionality to Postgres.

I don't use Access, but you might want to look at the documentation
about "serial" data type.

Sean



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