Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

2010-10-28 Thread venkat
Yes Done... Thanks alot... On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Shoaib Mir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:05 PM, venkat wrote: > >> ALTER TABLE Demotable ALTER COLUMN gid >> SET DEFAULT nextval('serial'::regclass); >> >> >> It is saying that ..serial does not exist...is that true ? >>

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

2010-10-28 Thread Shoaib Mir
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:05 PM, venkat wrote: > ALTER TABLE Demotable ALTER COLUMN gid > SET DEFAULT nextval('serial'::regclass); > > > It is saying that ..serial does not exist...is that true ? > > > Please avoid sending emails to the personal email addresses but use the community maili

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

2010-10-28 Thread venkat
ohhh,, sorry... It was wrong post..sorry again... On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Shoaib Mir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, venkat wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I want to convert integer datatype to serial datatype.. is that >> possible.Please let me know. >> >> > I don't think ALT

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

2010-10-28 Thread Shoaib Mir
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, venkat wrote: > Dear All, > > I got the solution... Here is my query > > ALTER TABLE DemoTable ALTER gid TYPE INT2; > > > Are you sure that you have converted here to a SERIAL type? -- Shoaib Mir http://shoaibmir.wordpress.com/

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] How to Convert Integer to Serial

2010-10-28 Thread Shoaib Mir
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, venkat wrote: > Dear All, > > I want to convert integer datatype to serial datatype.. is that > possible.Please let me know. > > I don't think ALTER TABLE will let you do that... so the best way to achieve the same is: - Create a sequence for the column (set th