On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carlos Mennens <carlos.menn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem in SQL I don't know how to solve and while I'm sure > there are 100+ ways to do this in ANSI SQL, I'm trying to find the > most cleanest / efficient way. I have a table called 'users' and the > field 'users_id' is listed as the PRIMARY KEY. I know I can use the > COUNT function, then I know exactly how many records are listed but I > don't know what the maximum or highest numeric value is so that I can > use the next available # for a newly inserted record. Sadly the > architect of this table didn't feel the need to create a sequence and > I don't know how to find the highest value.
select max(row_name) as max_val from table; Why not create a sequence on the current data then use currval() to get the max value. -wes -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
