On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andreas Wenk
<a(dot)wenk(at)netzmeister-st-pauli(dot)de> wrote:
> Why does this not work:
>
> postgres=# ALTER TABLE tab1 ALTER COLUMN nr TYPE serial;
> ERROR: type "serial" does not exist
serial is really just "short-hand" for making an integer column use
default incrementing function. The following will fully explain what
it is so that you can alter the column:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
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