On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:50 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote: > I need to develop a serial column that always starts at 1 and is > sequential even after deletes. > > Any ideas??? > Did you try the: create table tbl ( id SERIAL ); or even with primary key... create table tbl ( id SERIAL primary key ); -- Regards, Gevik Babakhani