From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sorry, now with subject... trigger & nextval(seq)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:46:52 -0700
Message-ID: <201005201846.53125.adrian.klaver@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45e30277e8954d24114a9fd63720c7e7.squirrel@mailbox.gwdg.de>
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On Thursday 20 May 2010 5:53:51 pm tlange@gwdg.de wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to triggers in PostgreSQL. I have to create a trigger on insert to
> increment a sequence to overcome MS-Access' limitation in acknowledging
> serial "datatype".
>
> Could anyone put me on right track? I was looking the whole day for
> references on that... Years ago I quickly found a reference how to do it
> in Oracle. However, I could not find anything that explained how to do
> this in postgresql... I think, it should go the direction see below... But
> how exactly :-/ ?
>
>
> Many thanks for any help, Torsten
>
>
> create table testtab (
> pid bigint,
> sometext text
> );
>
> create sequence test;
>
> -- hmm something like this...?
> CREATE FUNCTION count_up (varchar) RETURNS opaque AS '
> DECLARE
> pid_num bigint;
> BEGIN
> select into pid_num from select nextval($);
> RETURN pid_num;
> END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> -- and how will the trigger looks like
> ???
You know serial is just a shortcut for:
pid int NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('seq')
I think you will find Access will place nice if you use the long form to define
your autoincrement.
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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