Re: ITP: Slash, Sourceforge (fwd)

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:35:12AM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote:
> > i noticed that it uses a couple of auto-increment fields. these can
> > be implemented in postgres using a sequence and a trigger. e.g. to
> > create an auto-incrementing field called 'id' in table 'foo':
>
> ... commands for autoincrementing ...
>
> PostgreSQL can now do autoincrementing with a SERIAL data type, which
> is much simpler:
>
> junk=> create table c (id serial, name text);

cool. i hadn't noticed that yet. thanks for the tip.

craig

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craig sanders