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From: Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Serial
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:10:58 +0300
Message-ID: <eut97i$n5f$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
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Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote:
> thanks. I read the page you gave.
> 
> CREATE SEQUENCE seq_mytable_n_gen;
> 
> CREATE TABLE mytable
> (
>  n_gen int nextval('seq_mytable_n_gen'),
>  mycolumn1 int,
>  mycolumn2 int
> );
> 
> 
> i tried creating it like that. The sequence was created without any
> error. But for the create table i get
> 
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "nextval" at character 38
> 
> What should i do?


Add the missing "default":

CREATE TABLE mytable
(
  n_gen int DEFAULT nextval('seq_mytable_n_gen'),
  mycolumn1 int,
  mycolumn2 int
);



-- 
Milen A. Radev




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