Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > >> Is it also desired to convert an int column to a serial column? > > > I think the only sane solution is if a SERIAL column is changed to > > INTEGER, the default and dependencies are removed. Do you want a TODO > > for that? > > If we are going to do something like that, I think we should take a hard > look at the idea I floated of putting SERIAL back to a pure > creation-time macro for type and default expression. This is getting to > have way too much hidden behavior, and what we are buying for it is very > little as of 8.1.
OK, but I was confused how 8.1 has improved the way SERIAL works. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (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 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
