am Tue, dem 18.03.2008, um 12:03:31 -0500 mailte Campbell, Lance folgendes: > I created the following table: > > create table xyz ( > n serial, > abc character varying, > constraint n_pkey primary key (n)); > > Each time I do an insert: > > insert into xyz(abc) values('adf6'); > > The field n is not random but is sequential. Is there something I > should do to make the serial number random?
Why do you mean to need a random value? But you can use something like md5(nextval('your_sequence')) as default. But i can't see an advantage. > > > -----Original Message----- Please, no top-posting. I'm reading from top to bottom. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql