[Nitro] Og, adapting postgresql to reorgnaization

Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
Mon Mar 5 19:45:32 EST 2007


On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:33:28PM -0800, Judson Lester wrote:
> Why autoincrements weren't part of the original spec, I'll never know.

But PostgreSQL has support for sequences, which are in SQL2003, unlike MySQL's
proprietary autoincrement "feature". See
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/71.php and
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/faq.html#gen5

(Yes, I vastly prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL.)

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com


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