Re: Weirdess when altering serial column type

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Weirdess when altering serial column type
Date: 2005-04-19 06:17:32
Message-ID: 4264A27C.9070000@familyhealth.com.au
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>>Should that sequence really stick around as an integer, numeric and text
>>field???
>
> What are you unhappy about exactly? We expended a fair amount of sweat
> to make it behave just like that ...

It's confused the odd IRC user (pgsql newbie). Seems like it breaks the
'serial type' illusion...

I presume they have to drop the default, then drop the sequence to get
rid of it.

Chris

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