Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do both. Return SERIAL to being a macro and implement the SQL IDENTITY > construct as the black box version.
Doesn't SQL IDENTITY have a number of properties that are significantly different from serial/nextval? I wasn't really volunteering to implement a large new feature to make this happen ;-) Also, I'm not sure how "black boxy" it can be without buying right back into the pg_dump problems. pg_dump has to be able to see what's inside, I think. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster