On 18 Nov 2008, at 17:40, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:

On 18/11/2008 17:37, Scott Marlowe wrote:

create table a (i int primary key, info text);
create sequence a_i_seq;
alter table a alter column i set default nextval('a_i_seq');

You'll also need to grant SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the sequence
to the user that'll be INSERTing into the table.....this catches me
regularly. :-)

Ray.

Thanks guys. Looks like I misunderstood the manual. This is the first time I've worked with
SQL and "proper" databases so still feeling a bit lost.

Simon.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

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