I don't know if you can name a column date because I think it's a
reserved word.
Oddly enough, it *does* work (at least on my version of 7.1), although I
would recommend against doing it if for no other reason than it's confusing.
Greg
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Gregory Wood wrote:
I don't know if you can name a column date because I think it's a
reserved word.
Oddly enough, it *does* work (at least on my version of 7.1), although I
would recommend against doing it if for no other reason than it's confusing.
If you wrap
Ahhh, but I didn't use a double quote identifier. This statement worked fine
for me:
CREATE TABLE atable (
title VARCHAR(20),
name VARCHAR(20),
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
date DATE);
Greg
- Original Message -
From: Joel Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gregory Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Poul
Try this command at the psql command line:
CREATE SEQUENCE atable_id_seq;
ALTER TABLE atable ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT
nextval('atable_id_seq'::text);
Jeff
-Original Message-
How can I make the insert
command automatically update the 'id' to the next highest number?
I'm surprised that works at all... the name of the table is atable,
isn't
it? Try this:
INSERT INTO atable (title,name,date) VALUES ('SQL3','Toy',date('now'));
Greg
Thanks for the help. I wrote the command out wrong in the post, I did try
the
one that you wrote out, and it didn't
