Serial field and insert, maybe a very stupid question

Hy, I have two identical tables on two different IDS 10 Servers. Both tables look exactly the same, structure like that: create table tblSomething{ idxodbc serial, Textfield char(20) } Both tables have the same data, 12 rows with idbxodbc from 1 to 12 and some text in each row. 1 SomeText 2 Moretext ... 12 lasttext Now I did an INSERT INTO tbSomething -- working on Server1 SELECT * FROM database@Server2:tblSomething I expected to get a hit on my finger for writing exactly the same Values in a serial defined field, but the Insert just ran and I ended up with two rows with idxodbc=1, two rows with idxodbc=2 and so forth... 1 SomeText 1 SomeText 2 Moretext 2 Moretext ... 12 lasttext 12 lasttext Is this normal behaviour? I am very surprised, but it has been a long time since I tried to mess up with serial defined fields. (once with Online 4.x when I started Informix) regards, Joerg Volz IT Handel und Beratung Jörg Volz Bernhard-Früh-Str. 7 77855 Achern GERMANY Tel: 07841-681651 Fax: 07841-681654 Mobil: 0170-2989757 Ust-ID: DE201383541 http://www.it-volz.de