On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 14:57:12 -0400,
  Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am working on setting up a table that will append a sequence to the end 
> of the value inserted.
> Example;
> INSERT INTO test (test) VALUES ('abcd');
> And have the data in the database be;
> abcd0001
> 
> Now I do have things setup else where were the default value for the field 
> is such:
> default ('abcd'::text || lpad(text(nextval('test_sequence'::text)), 4, 
> '0'::text))
> 
> But i want the "abcd" or what erver to be added in the insert?
> 
> What am I missing to make this happen?

I think you want to use a trigger to do this. The default function only
gets used if you don't supply a value.

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