SERIAL in replication

Question

Hello all, i am designing an schema to use later in replication with maxdb, can i use  the serial autoincrement in a table if i am sure it is not updated on two different databases at the same time?
other question any suggestion to the primary key of the tables where i have to write in all databases? were i have not natural keys i thought use a numeric prefix for every site so i cant repeat the same, anything like 115+0000001 where "115" is the site code, 1 is the local site sequence number to the table and the 000000 will be appended by the application, i append this number of 0 (to fill 7 characters) because it is the maximum let me maintain integer datatype in the id column and gives me a really larger space to the sequence, but i suppose a better method exists and i dont know, any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hello,
do you want to use the Synchronization Manager to replicate your database?
If you want to use a serial auto increment you should do this only in one database.
e.g.: some kind of master database. The Synchronization Manager will replicate the values to the other client databases. To avoid some kind of disorder the client databases should not update or use an auto increment value.
Best regards
   Wolfgang