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From: "Richard Rowell" <the_pitman@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Auto increment
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 19:24:16 -0600
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In article <vnxr5.4053$nq.48129@twister.sunsite.auc.dk>, "Mads Jensen"
<astrup_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm a newbiw with pgsql:
> 
> 1: Haven't been able to find the officiel manual to pgsql. What's the
> complete URL?

Hmm, I don't know, I use the book which you can find with all the rest of the docs at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/index.html


> 2: How can I make an auto increment with PostGreSQL? is it "inherit"?

One of two ways.  Either make the data type "serial" or you can create a sequence and 
set the default value of the field to curval(sequence).