Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I think you want a sequence. Give the serial number the type bigserial or > > serial. See > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html for > > more. > > OK, thats cool... I have found an example in "sql-createsequence.html" > > CREATE SEQUENCE serial START 1; > > INSERT INTO distributors VALUES (nextval('serial'), 'nothing'); > > But there is one thing not clear: > > Du I need to create a SEQUENCE for each table or do I need only ONE of > if and can use it independant on differnt tables? You can use one sequence for many tables. If you follow the advice by Nikolas Everett and use a "serial" column, that would create one dedicated sequence per serial column. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
