On Friday 01 July 2005 02:55, Uroš Kristan wrote: > I have an application in production, build on mysql database. > > I decided to migrate to postgres because of numerous reasons. Good idea :) > Can you guys please guide me into the right direction? > > the main problem is the missing autoincrement of pgsql and getting the > last record from the tabel, for linking to another tabel. > > How do you deal with that? The basic idea is that you use sequences which in postgresql are the "equivalent" of autoincrement in mysql. Something like: INSERT INTO category (category_id, category_name, category_description) VALUES (nextval('category_id_seq'), "new_category_name", "new_category_description"); here 'category_id_seq' is the name of the sequence that produces the unique IDs for your category_id. To use your newly created category_id in another table: INSERT INTO product (product_id, product_name, product_description, category_id) VALUES (nextval('product_id_seq'), "new_product_name", "new_product_description", currval('category_id_seq')); nextval() and currval() are native postgresql functions which operate on sequences. Sequences are created automatically when you define a field to be of type 'serial'. If you need get the actual value of the newly created category_id for use in php then you would have to do a select query, eg: select currval('category_id_seq') as new_category_id; and do the usual pg_query() and pg_fetch_*() to process the result > also, can you please recommend me some good manual, explanation or book > to help me with this problem. Lookup "serial types" and "sequences" in the (postgresql) manual for the basics. > Because the application uses around 250 tables in mysql and I would > like to make it righ t the first time > > when migrating to pgsql.. I would suggest that you start off with a 'smaller' project and explore all the ways where postgresql does things differently to and/or better than mysql, then work your way up to a more complex project. This would be much better than doing a hasty migration to postgresql - which does not make the most of what postgresql has to offer - and then trying to hack the postgresql features in afterwards. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php