[Catalyst] Catalyst and Oracle

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Mon Aug 15 21:22:43 CEST 2005


On 8/15/05 3:25 PM, "Matt S Trout" <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:

> 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/Aut
> o/

Thanks for the pointer....

Sean




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