Stephan Szabo wrote: > > If don't understand. We already have a unique index on the SERIAL > > column, so why bother rejecting an insert/update that supplies the > > value? We need the column to be unique, and that is forced, but why > > prevent _any_ unique value from being used. > > One reason is that the sequence won't respect those inserted values and > you'll get uniqueness errors on statements that don't give a value for the > column where you'd expect to be getting a working autogenerated value.
Oh, it causes problems later on. Interesting. However, preventing INSERT/UPDATE seems quite extreme. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
