The later, But many times one will put a trigger (on insert) on the table to automatically set the value
Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Engelhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vox-tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:13 PM Subject: [vox-tech] Postgres Oracle Compatibility - serial column type > Keywords: postgres, oracle, RDBMS computability issues > > I'm trying to anticipate scripting computability issues for Postgres and > Oracle. I have already migrated from Perl Pg to Perl DBI, but there are > also RDBMS function issues to consider. Does anyone know whether Oracle > has a data (column) type equivalent to Postgres SERIAL, or does one have > to create a sequence and use nextval()/currval()/setval()? > > -- > Eric Engelhard > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
