Re: CREATE TABLE initial value for PRIMARY KEY

> I thought about  using a DEFAULT value, but I had presumed
> that this was only for repeated intializations.  So then is it the
> case that a
> CREATE TABLE mytable ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT 100000, ...
> only applies this default to the very first row of such a table, and then
> sensibly, increments from there ?
> (Guess I could easily try this out...)

Ah, I think I know what you are looking for. You want an auto-incrementing number. There are
special sudo-data-types called serial bigserial.  These are really auto-incrementing
integers/bigintegers. For more details on how to use this see:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL

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Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.