On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:23:31AM +0200, Marco Bizzarri wrote: > Hi all. > > I need to keep a numer of counters in my application; my counters > are currently stored in a table: > > name | next_value | year > > The counters must be progressive numbers with no holes in between > them, and they must restart from 1 every year. Here's a backward-compatible way to do this: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/130.php Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate