Re: [HACKERS] sequence creation

> > Right now, we allow PRIMARY to auto-create an index.
> > Can we have something to auto-create sequences, instead of the more
> > complicated CREATE SEQUENCE process.
> > Perhaps use the data type SERIAL to autocreate a sequence.  Should
> > make life easier for novices.  We are getting too many sequence
> > questions.
>
> That would be possible. I'd be happier doing it for v6.5, since I'm
> hoping to work on docs in the meantime. Of course, maybe it would be
> easy :)
>
> What should the syntax be exactly?
>
>   CREATE TABLE t (s SERIAL);
>
> or
>
>   CREATE TABLE t (i INT DEFAULT SERIAL);
>
> or ??
>
> Are there alternate syntaxes from other DBs which should be considered?

Can't be that hard.  I like the first one myself, and it matches
Informix.


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