From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@uiuc.edu>
Cc: sql pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Create on insert a unique random number
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:43:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <268179.51357.qm@web54301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE8760CDDC32@SAB-FENWICK.sab.uiuc.edu>
> When inserting a record is there a way to have postgres create a
> random number for a field such that it is unique?
you could use oid
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