On Thursday 15 May 2008 9:14 am, Ottavio Campana wrote: > Scott Marlowe ha scritto: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Ottavio Campana <ottavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I know it's not fully IT with the list, but maybe somebody can help me. > >> > >> I'm dealing with this scenario: access 97 is connected through odbc to a > >> postgresql server. All tables are saved in postgresql and access is used > >> only to generated the program interface. > >> > >> Everything works fines, but I'm having problems with the serial data > >> type. I know a serial is an integer having as default the next value of > >> a sequence. Since it is an integer, access does not recognize it as an > >> autoincrement value, and it asks for is value. > >> > >> Did anyone of you already have this problem? > > > > Can you feed it a value of DEFAULT??? > > I'd like to, but I don't think I could do it. > > The fact is that the serial data type is in pratice an integer, and when > I also try to connect with pgadminIII I see an integer data type and not > a serial. I think that since it sees an integer, it does not understand > that it is a serial, and access does not recognize it as autoincrement. > > I'm stuck at this point... Did you mark this field as the primary key when you linked the table? -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx