Joshua D. Drake wrote:
On 01/03/07, Andrew Madu < andrewmadu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dave,
my apologies for contacting you off list but i'm having a spot of bother
with postgreSQL sequence setup in rails. In addition to what is mentioned
below, I have place the following line of code in my
The definition of primary key explicitly states that it can't be null.
You are trying to pass a null to user_id which won't work.
Joshua D. Drkae
In MySQL that is traditionally how you tell the RDBMS to use the
auto_increment to generate the value. Postgres correctly doesn't allow
that (since you might actually try to set a field to NULL accidentally
in which case an error is expected).
The portable (and correct) way to do it is to use the DEFAULT keyword
like this:
INSERT INTO some_table (id_field) VALUES (DEFAULT);
I just tested on MySQL 5.0.32 and that syntax works fine.
--
Russ.
