From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: juerg.rietmann@pup.ch
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to use nextval()
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:37:22 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207051534120.12331-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF5CD8DD5B.CD18AF26-ONC1256BED.0041BE98-C1256BED.00422F9C@pup.ch>
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 juerg.rietmann@pup.ch wrote:
> Hello there
>
> I have an idea how to solve my problem on copy a record to a new one in the
> same table. To do so I need the next value for the primary key.
>
> Using :
>
> select nextval('pk_auftrag') as nextkey from auftrag;
>
> I get an error like : Relation pk_auftrag does not exist !
Do a \d to find out the name of your sequence.
Most probably it will be named as
"auftrag_<your auftrag table primary key>_seq".
Let it be "auftrag_id_seq".
Your command is
SELECT nextval('"auftrag_id_seq"'::text);
>
> Thanks for any help ... jr
>
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