Re: Why is SERIAL a keyword?

From: Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why is SERIAL a keyword?
Date: 2001-08-16 06:18:25
Message-ID: 3B7B65B1.BA7CBD55@albourne.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> The only downside I can see to this is that it's currently possible to
> use a user-defined type named "serial", if you are determined enough:
>
> create table foo (
> f1 serial, -- it's a serial column
> f2 "serial", -- user-defined type named "serial"

I would call it a bug actually...

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