Prabu Subroto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I read your suggestion, that means...I have drop > the column "salesid" and re-create the column > "salesid". and it means, I will the data in the > current "salesid" column. > > Do you have further suggestion?
You can do it "by hand" without dropping the column: CREATE SEQUENCE salesid_seq; SELECT setval('salesid_seq', (SELECT max(salesid) FROM sales) + 1); ALTER TABLE sales ALTER COLUMN salesid DEFAULT nextval('salesid_seq'); This is the same thing that the SERIAL datatype does "behind the scenes". I can't vouch for the exact syntax of the above but that should get you started. -Doug -- Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. --T. J. Jackson, 1863 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org