From: tsuraan <tsuraan@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T06:29:22+09:00
Subject: Re: probably a stupid rails question

> 1)  It would be better to use the Rails mailing list for your Rails
> questions. [1]

Yeah, I just haven't subscribed yet.  I guess I should :)


> 2)  you need to define a sequence and set the default value of that
> column to the nextval of the sequence.  This is in PosgreSQL
> accomplished by using the 'serial' type when creating the table.
> 
> create table foo (id serial primary key, ...);
> 
> You can also go back and do it manually by creating a sequence and
> altering the table.  This is basically equivalent to an
> 'autoincrement' column in MySQL (not exactly, but similar principle).

Cool, thanks!