Re: PATCH: 'serial' like types were missing while creating table/column (pgAdmin4)

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 'serial' like types were missing while creating table/column (pgAdmin4)
Date: 2016-06-29 11:19:06
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxwNU1650nQbi=UgApn6tgosRFTc1AcOGkkqj9KJmSeFw@mail.gmail.com
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That's the same patch!

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala
<murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> As suggested please find updated patch.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Murtuza Zabuawala
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala
>> <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > PFA patch to fix the issue where 'serial' like types were not listed
>> > under
>> > type combobox while creating new table/column.
>> > RM#1393
>>
>> This changes the display text of all integer columns with a dependency
>> to the respective serial type, e.g.
>>
>> create table test(id integer primary key);
>>
>> gets reverse engineered into:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE public.test
>> (
>> id serial NOT NULL,
>> CONSTRAINT test_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
>> )
>>
>> I would strongly suggest that we only add "serial" and friends to the
>> list of available types for creating/adding a column. Once created, we
>> display the base type, with the default value clause etc.
>>
>> pgAdmin 3 does what you're trying to do here, but the logic is very
>> complex, likely broken in some edge cases, and I don't think it really
>> adds much. See pgColumn::GetDefinition() in
>>
>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=pgadmin/schema/pgColumn.cpp
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>
>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>
>

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