Advice requested :-) I have a table like:
CREATE TABLE items (
id INT,
typ INT ...
PRIMAY KEY (seq,typ));
I would like 'id' to be like a SERIAL except that I
want independent sequences for each value of 'typ'.
So if 'items' is:
id typ
----+-----
1 'a'
2 'a'
3 'a'
1 'b'
then doing:
INSERT items(typ) VALUES('a');
INSERT items(typ) VALUES('b');
will result in:
id typ
----+-----
1 'a'
2 'a'
3 'a'
1 'b'
4 'a'
2 'b'
Because there can be dozens of values of 'typ'
and new ones added not infrequently, creating
a postgresql sequence for each seems awkward.
Are there other ways I could accomplish this?
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