Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

   > SERIAL type auto-creates sequence

   I won't have time to do this for v6.4. It's not quite the same as the
   PRIMARY KEY parser solution, since the sequence must be created _before_
   the main portion of the CREATE TABLE command is executed, rather than
   after. We should go through the high-level parser routines and allow all
   of them to return multiple parse trees; at the moment I've got a
   special-case workaround implemented for the PRIMARY KEY code which
   doesn't generalize very well.

Actually, sequences can be defined _either_ before or after the
table.  See below.

Cheers,
Brook

===========================================================================
-- create id sequence before table
drop sequence id_sequence_before;
create sequence id_sequence_before start 1;

-- create table
drop table id_table;
create table id_table
(
 id_before    int4        default nextval ('id_sequence_before'),
 id_after    int4        default nextval ('id_sequence_after'),
 name        text
);

-- create id sequence after table
drop sequence id_sequence_after;
create sequence id_sequence_after start 1;

-- populate table
insert into id_table (name) values ('one');
insert into id_table (name) values ('two');
insert into id_table (name) values ('three');

select * from id_table;
===========================================================================
id_before|id_after|name
---------+--------+-----
        1|       1|one
        2|       2|two
        3|       3|three
(3 rows)
===========================================================================