From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To: Aaron Held <aaron@metrony.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bulk imports with sequence
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:00:28 -0400
Message-ID: <3D61F71C.23211.5F25BAFB@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000b01c24840$7b5a0880$4b00a8c0@metrony.com>
On 20 Aug 2002 at 7:55, Aaron Held wrote:
> I am importing a large number of records monthly using the \copy (from
> text file)command.
>
> I would like to use a sequence as a unique row ID for display in my
> app.
>
> Is there any way to let postgresql generate the sequence itself.
> Currently the only way I can make it work is to grab the next seq
> value and insert my own numbers into the file
Yes:
create sequence mytable_id_seq;
alter table mytable alter column id set default
nextval('mycolumn_id_seq'::text);
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Dan Langille
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