am Tue, dem 18.11.2008, um 1:09:44 -0800 mailte mahmoud ewiwi folgendes: > hi gurus > i have a problem in generating serial number with the form yyyymm0000 how can > i do that?
test=# create temporary sequence foo; CREATE SEQUENCE test=# select to_char(current_date, 'yyyymm')||trim(to_char(nextval('foo'),'09999')); ?column? ------------- 20081100001 (1 row) test=# select to_char(current_date, 'yyyymm')||trim(to_char(nextval('foo'),'09999')); ?column? ------------- 20081100002 (1 row) test=# select to_char(current_date, 'yyyymm')||trim(to_char(nextval('foo'),'09999')); ?column? ------------- 20081100003 (1 row) HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql