Re: Confusing behavior of create table like

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Confusing behavior of create table like
Date: 2020-08-03 16:35:15
Message-ID: a6f51127-ab63-0d05-4442-8fef569660f0@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-08-03 14:58, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> May be generated and identity columns are good things. I have nothing
> against them.
> But what preventing us from providing the similar behavior for
> serial/bigseries types?

In my mind, serial/bigserial is deprecated and it's not worth spending
effort on patching them up.

One thing we could do is change serial/bigserial to expand to identity
column definitions instead of the current behavior.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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