Comments on: Ruby on Rails: First contact

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:51:25 +0000

Ditto. I use serial in postgres all the time without a problem.

I don’t know what I’d do without postgres. MySQL truly sux ass. It’s slow. Bloated. I’m always bemused when a “relational” database doesn’t support referential integrity _properly_.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:31:20 +0000

I was thinking that when I read it, that pgsql did doe serial. I was doing the O’Reilly tutorials in PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and used serial.

By: Brian McCallister

Brian McCallister — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:22:40 +0000

Umh, postgres does serial…

brianm=# create table foo (id serial primary key);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence “foo_id_seq” for serial column “foo.id”
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index “foo_pkey” for table “foo”
CREATE TABLE
brianm=#

Weird =/