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PostgreSQL Auto IDs

PostgreSQL’s approach to automatic numbering is as simple as Oracle but different than MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. For example, you have a two-step process with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. First, you create an Oracle table with the GENERATED AS IDENTITY clause, a PostgreSQL table with the SERIAL data type, a MySQL table with the AUTO_INCREMENT clause, and a Microsoft SQL Server table with the IDENTITY(1,1) clause. Then, you need to write an INSERT statement for Oracle, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server like:

  1. Oracle’s INSERT statement excludes the auto-incrementing column from the list of columns or provides a NULL value in the VALUES-list. You can then assign the RETURNING INTO result from an INSERT statement to a session-level (bind) variable.
  2. MySQL’s …
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Fedora PostgreSQL Install

Somebody asked how to put PostgreSQL on my Fedora image with Oracle Database 11g and MySQL. It’s fairly simple. You can check for the current download at yum.postgresql.org and then download it like this as the root user:

      yum localinstall http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/fedora/fedora-20-x86_64/pgdg-fedora93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm

You should see the following output when the download is successful, don’t forget to type y to complete the download:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
pgdg-fedora93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm                              | 5.1 kB  00:00     
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-2EPf_J/pgdg-fedora93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm: pgdg-fedora93-9.3-1.noarch
Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-2EPf_J/pgdg-fedora93-9.3-1.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving …
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