Re: [HACKERS] Primary key requires SERIAL

> At 11:19 PM 11/18/99 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> > We currently only allow the words PRIMARY KEY on a SERIAL column.
> >>
> >> Say what? There are ColConstraintElem and ConstraintElem productions
> >> for PRIMARY KEY ... are they broken?
> >>
> >> regards, tom lane
> >>
> >
> >Oh, I see it now. The grammer seems to only support it in SERIAL, but I
> >see it works now. I guess i am surprised SERIAL PRIMARY creates the
> >index and sequence, while INTEGER PRIMARY only creates the index.
>
> Oops, I guess I blew it by responding to a post by Bruce assuming he
> was right.

Seems I can't realy on understanding what we support by just looking at
gram.y.

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