Re: Create table error

Thank you Stephan Szabo,
 I removed additional information from parenthesis and
it worked.
What I wanted to store is a number (e.g:15099404)
which is a publication ID from PubMed (medical litt.
database).  This number I wanted to use further to
build queries to extract the publication linked to
that number.

My collegue suggested that I could store that number
as a string too because I will not be doing any
calculations on that number.

Do you have any comments.

Thanks
Kumar.

--- Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kumar S wrote:
>
> > Dear group,
> > Could you please suggest if my sql syntax is wrong
> for
> > creating the table:
> > my sql statements:
> > create table EXPERIMENT
> > (
> >         exp_id          serial,
> >         exp_name        varchar(32)     not null,
> >         con_id          serial  references
> > contacts(con_id),
> >         exp_type        varchar(32)     not null,
> >         exp_desc        varchar(64),
> >         exp_pmid        integer(30)     not null,
> >         exp_rawdata_url varchar(32),
> >         constraint      experiment_pk primary
> > key(exp_id)
> > );
> >
> >
> > When I compile this I get the following error:
> > psql:/home/sk/temp/postgres/exp.sql:11: ERROR:
> syntax
> > error at or near "(" at character 200
> >
> > What is wrong with my code.
>
> The type INTEGER doesn't take additional information
> in parens.
> What range of values were you trying to hold?
>


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