[Catalyst] Catalyst and Oracle

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:09:34PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> On 8/15/05 2:48 PM, "Simon Miner" <sminer at christianbook.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is PostgresSQL's "serial" like MySQL's "auto increment".  If so, I don't
> > believe Oracle supports this.  It uses sequence objects instead.
> 
> Just for the record, "Nope."  Serial is just a "macro" for defining the
> sequence and defaults for the column.

You can find a good overview of how at least a few dbs' auto-inc equivalents
work in perl by reading the various components at

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/lib/DBIx/Class/PK/Auto/

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