HHB wrote:
Hi.
I have sequence for each table in my database.
In order to populate same data in the database, I created some SQL text
files.
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insert into categories values (id value from sequence, '..', '...');
insert into books values (id value from sequence, '..', '...', '..', fk to
category id);

If they are of SERIAL type then they'll use their sequence by default:

INSERT INTO my_table (id, a, b) VALUES (DEFAULT, 'abc', 123);

Otherwise you can use the currval/nextval() functions:

INSERT INTO my_table (id, a, b) VALUES (nextval(<SEQUENCE-NAME>), 'abc', 123);

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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