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From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: next integer in serial key
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:31:18 +0100
Message-ID: <1090474278.25749.173.camel@linda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0407220815420P.01150@thenilgiris.com>
References: <0407220815420P.01150@thenilgiris.com>

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 03:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hi,
> how does one get the next number in a serial type row?

When inserting a new row, do not mention the serial column in the list
of columns, or else give it the value DEFAULT.

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Oliver Elphick                                          olly@lfix.co.uk
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