Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity
Date: 2019-04-19 18:12:04
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.20.1904191111050.24219@salmo.appl-ecosys.com
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
> "The data types smallserial, serial and bigserial are not true types, but
> merely a notational convenience for creating unique identifier columns"
> so really there's no difference, what you have is fine.

Michel,

That's what I thought. And confirmation is always valuable.

Regards,

Rich

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