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Home 2016 August PostgreSQL: Create an auto incrementing Primary Key using a Custom Sequence

PostgreSQL: Create an auto incrementing Primary Key using a Custom Sequence

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In this post, I am creating an auto increment PRIMARY KEY using a custom sequence of the PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL already provides two data types for auto increment id, serial (4 bytes) & bigserial (8 bytes).
When we apply serial or bigserial to the particular column, internally it creates a default sequence object for that column and automatically it generates auto increment value for that column.

We can also create custom sequence object in the PostgreSQL and it also requires in some situation where we do not want to use default sequence value.

First, Create a sequence object:Starting with 100 and increment by 10

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CREATE SEQUENCE seq_MyCustom_Id
START 100
INCREMENT 10
NO MAXVALUE
CACHE 1;

Create sample table:

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CREATE TABLE tbl_SampleID
(
ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY
,Name CHARACTER VARYING(50)
);

Use this sequence object and Insert sample data:

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INSERT INTO tbl_SampleID
VALUES
(NEXTVAL('seq_MyCustom_Id'),'Anvesh')
,(NEXTVAL('seq_MyCustom_Id'),'Roy')
,(NEXTVAL('seq_MyCustom_Id'),'Martin');

Aug 3, 2016Anvesh Patel
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Comments: 1
  1. Bruno Felipe
    August 6, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    Nice post, thanks for sharing it

Anvesh Patel
Anvesh Patel

Database Engineer

August 3, 2016 PostgreSQLAnvesh Patel, auto increment, database, database research and development, dbrnd, plpgsql, Postgres Query, postgresql, PostgreSQL Administrator, PostgreSQL Error, PostgreSQL Programming, PostgreSQL Tips and Tricks, Primary key, sequence
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