Re: SERIAL type feature request

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor(at)dunaweb(dot)hu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SERIAL type feature request
Date: 2005-12-05 01:57:21
Message-ID: 43939E81.1020109@familyhealth.com.au
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> I think nobody would object to implementing support for the SQL2003
> syntax. Most of that would be providing all the values that will get
> forwarded into the internal sequence generation during CREATE TABLE.

Someone also pointed out on IRC the other day that Oracle and DB2 list
'identity' as the column type of identity columns in the
information_schema, whereas we just put 'integer'. Maybe we could
change that to match in the future...

Chris

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