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AUTO INCREMENT (auto-increment) generates a unique number when a new record is inserted into the table.
PostgreSQL uses sequences to identify the auto-incrementing fields, with data types smallserial, serial, and bigserial. These attributes are similar to the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute supported by MySQL databases.
The statement to set automatic increment in MySQL is as follows:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `w3codebox_tbl( `w3codebox_id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT, `w3codebox_title VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, `w3codebox_author VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, `submission_date` DATE, PRIMARY KEY (3codebox_id )ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
MySQL uses the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute to identify the auto-incrementing fields.
PostgreSQL uses sequences to identify the auto-incrementing fields:
CREATE TABLE w3codebox ( id serial NOT NULL, alttext text, imgurl text )
SMALLSERIAL, SERIAL and BIGSERIAL Range:
Pseudo-Type | Storage Size | Range |
---|---|---|
SMALLSERIAL | 2bytes | 1 to 32,767 |
SERIAL | 4bytes | 1 to 2,147,483,647 |
BIGSERIAL | 8bytes | 1 to 922,337,2036,854,775,807 |
SERIAL data type basic syntax is as follows:
CREATE TABLE tablename ( colname SERIAL );
Assuming we want to create a COMPANY table and create the following fields:
w3codeboxdb=# CREATE TABLE COMPANY( ID SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, NAME TEXT NOT NULL, AGE INT NOT NULL, ADDRESS CHAR(50), SALARY REAL );
Now insert several records into the table:
INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ( 'Paul', 32, 'California', 20000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ('Allen', 25, 'Texas', 15000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ('Teddy', 23, 'Norway', 20000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ( 'Mark', 25, 'Rich-Mond ', 65000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ( 'David', 27, 'Texas', 85000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ( 'Kim', 22, 'South-Hall', 45000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES ( 'James', 24, 'Houston', 10000.00 );
View the records of the COMPANY table as follows:
id | name | age | address | salary ----+-------+-----+------------+-------- 1 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 2 | Allen | 25 | Texas | 15000 3 | Teddy | 23 | Norway | 20000 4 | Mark | 25 | Rich-Mond | 65000 5 | David | 27 | Texas | 85000 6 | Kim | 22 | South-Hall | 45000 7 | James | 24 | Houston | 10000