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Numerical sequence generation for automatic key creation

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Postgres CYCLE and existing values

The sequence will return values in order, whether or not they exist in the table. Your code will need to defend against that. Any method to defend against possibly already-in-use serial values will re …
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Primary key with randomly varying increments (so it cannot be guessed easily)

As your goal is for: the end users to not able to guess the primary keys by simply incrementing numbers. then rather than just a variable increment of your keys (so they have to search a few ten …
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Auto increment char varying column prefixed with some characters

PostgreSQL does not have "auto-increment" fields in the sense of MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT, but I'm guessing you mean SERIAL. If so, yes, what you describe is possible, but please, please don't do this. …
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