[ic] Auto number-tuning

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jul 3 15:43:00 2002


"Rene Hertell" <rene@hertell.com> writes:

> > I suggest to use MySQL tables with auto_increment keys and AUTO_SEQUENCE 1
> > in the IC Database settings. A similar method is probably available for
> > other SQL databases.
> 
> Hi Racke!
> 
> I'm using postgres, and I tried to define my primary key as a serial field,
> but it did not work out... Is there any other column type I should use to
> get that autoincrement enabled?
> 
> This is how my definition looks like:
> 
> Database  links   DEFAULT_TYPE    text
> Database  links   COLUMN_DEF      "code=SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY"
> Database  links   AUTO_SEQUENCE   1

It is too long ago that I used PostgreSQL, but IMHO IC supports SQL-based
autonumbering with PostgreSQL too.

Ciao
        Racke

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