[GENERAL] No serial type

2008-11-18 Thread Simon Connah
Hi, I've just started using PostgreSQL and have been reading up on it. Part of what I wanted to do was to have a column which automatically incremented itself by one every time I do an INSERT. From reading the manual I was lead to believe that the correct type for this was either serial or

Re: [GENERAL] No serial type

2008-11-18 Thread Simon Connah
On 18 Nov 2008, at 17:40, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 18/11/2008 17:37, Scott Marlowe wrote: create table a (i int primary key, info text); create sequence a_i_seq; alter table a alter column i set default nextval('a_i_seq'); You'll also need to grant SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the s