[vox-tech] Postgres Oracle Compatibility - serial column type

[Jay Strauss]

The later,

But many times one will put a trigger (on insert) on the table to
automatically set the value

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Engelhard" <eric_cl@pacbell.net>
To: "vox-tech" <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] Postgres Oracle Compatibility - serial column type


> Keywords: postgres, oracle, RDBMS computability issues
>
> I'm trying to anticipate scripting computability issues for Postgres and
> Oracle. I have already migrated from Perl Pg to Perl DBI, but there are
> also RDBMS function issues to consider. Does anyone know whether Oracle
> has a data (column) type equivalent to Postgres SERIAL, or does one have
> to create a sequence and use nextval()/currval()/setval()?
>
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