| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Adam Rich" <adam(dot)r(at)sbcglobal(dot)net> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL to Postgres question |
| Date: | 2008-03-23 02:20:44 |
| Message-ID: | 20080322192044.0de96b03@jd-laptop |
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:17:10 -0500
"Adam Rich" <adam(dot)r(at)sbcglobal(dot)net> wrote:
> > The short answer is that Adam's statement is wrong, or at least
> > misleading.
>
> Sorry Tom, I wasn't trying to do either. Joshua Drake (who I
> understand to be a reliable source of postgresql information) said
> that applying a sequence to a column after creation created issues,
> versus using the serial type which did not.
Right but as Tom reminded me, the behavior I was referring to was pre
8.3 and in (I believe) it was 8.2 we introduced alter sequence options
to fix the problem.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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