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From: John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>
To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to Convert Integer to Serial
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:09:45 -0700
Message-ID: <4CCA5719.4010409@hogranch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimArej9_0ko8piTWsoW9mrsdwOUKJs2cNyLTEuf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTimArej9_0ko8piTWsoW9mrsdwOUKJs2cNyLTEuf@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/28/10 9:48 PM, venkat wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>   I want to convert integer datatype to serial datatype.. is that 
> possible.Please let me know.
>

SERIAL is not actually a data type, its simply an integer with an 
associated sequence.    what Shoab Mir gave will add this sequence to 
the existing integer





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