Re: [GENERAL] two serial fields within one table?

different frequency: eventid is much less frequent having
null (i.e., eventid often has values), while schedid usually
always null. A thorough normalized design is make a event table,
then, eventid in table tmpschedule will be, as you suggested, int.
However, eventaddtime is seldom updated. So, I prefer the denormalized
design. Hence 2 serial type fields.

Thanks for your reply. Now I know at least it is not my fault ;-)
I'll try to manually create the missing sequence. Or, just use
sequence directly.



>From: Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net>
>To: "amy cheng" <amycq@hotmail.com>, pgsql-general@hub.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] two serial fields within one table?
>Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:52:28 -0300
>
>I tried it here and it doesn't work for me either, but I was wondering why
>you would want to do this anyway?  All you are doing is creating two fields
>(schedid and eventid) that are going to contain the same value when a new
>record is inserted.  If you are just using them to link to other tables
>that have a serial type, use an int (which I believe is the actual type for
>the sequence macro.)  If you are going to link to this table from two other
>tables, why not just combine the two keys and link both of the other tables
>to schedid?
>
>At 04:31 PM 10/12/99, amy cheng wrote:
> >hi, there,
> >
> >I use two serial type fields within one table, seems psql does not
> >like it: it override the first one with the second one! Why? (seems to me
> >quite often if I do not want to normize it too much) or
> >something else?
> >
> >here is the table:
> >
> >create table tmpschedule
> >(
> >  schedid    serial,
> >  addtime       datetime,
> >  eventid       serial,
> >  eventaddtime  datetime,
> >  poll          int
> >);
> >
> >
> >thanks in advance!!!
> >
> >
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