On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A recent message from a would-be mysql converter led me to realize
> that we don't check for array decoration when we expand "serial".
> So this is accepted but doesn't do what one might expect:
>
> regression=# create table foo (f1 serial[11]);
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "foo_f1_seq" for
> serial column "foo.f1"
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# \d foo
> Table "public.foo"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+---------+--------------------------------------------------
> f1 | integer | not null default nextval('foo_f1_seq'::regclass)
>
>
> Should we throw an error for this?
+1
> If not, what behavior would be
> sane?
>
>
I don't see any sane explanation if we do provide that syntax!!!
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