Increment / Counter

representation.identifier.increment

Counter value that increases by fixed steps (often 1). May appear as row numbers, sequence IDs, or generation numbers. Broad categorization.

Domain

representation

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "1"
→ representation.identifier.increment

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('1');
-- → 'representation.identifier.increment'

Cast expression

CAST({col} AS BIGINT)

Safe cast pipeline

-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS BIGINT) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'representation.identifier.increment';

JSON Schema

finetype schema representation.identifier.increment

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/representation.identifier.increment",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Counter value that increases by fixed steps (often 1). May appear as row numbers, sequence IDs, or generation numbers. Broad categorization.",
  "examples": [
    "1",
    "2",
    "3"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[0-9]+$",
  "title": "Increment / Counter",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "BIGINT",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS BIGINT)"
}

Examples

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Aliases

countersequenceid