Re: [GENERAL] altering a table to set serial function

2004-07-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 06:09, Prabu Subroto wrote: > Dear Scott... > > My God so I can not use "alter table" to define a > column with int data type? Not define, REdefine. Right now, the version going into beta will let you redefine columns from one type to another. Til then, you have to mak

Re: [GENERAL] altering a table to set serial function

2004-07-28 Thread Prabu Subroto
This is exactly what I need.. Thank you very much for your kindness, Doug. Thank you...thank you...veryvery,,, much. --- Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prabu Subroto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If I read your suggestion, that means...I have > drop > > the column "salesid" a

Re: [GENERAL] altering a table to set serial function

2004-07-28 Thread Doug McNaught
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 droppin

Re: [GENERAL] altering a table to set serial function

2004-07-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:09:33AM -0700, Prabu Subroto wrote: > Dear Scott... > > My God so I can not use "alter table" to define a > column with int data type? eh? Sure you can: alter table x add column y integer; What's he's saying is that the "serial" shortcut isn't there and proceeded

Re: [GENERAL] altering a table to set serial function

2004-07-28 Thread Prabu Subroto
Dear Scott... My God so I can not use "alter table" to define a column with int data type? Here is the detail condition: I have created a table "sales". And I forgot to define auto_increment for primary key "salesid" (int4). the table has already contented the data. I built an application wi