Re: No serial type

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Serial is a "pseudotype".  It represents creating an int or bigint and
> a sequence then assigning a default value for the column and setting
> dependency in the db so the sequence will be dropped when the table
> gets dropped.  If you don't want to recreate the table, you can do
> this:
>
> create table a (i int primary key, info text);
> create sequence a_i_seq;
> alter table a alter column i set default nextval('a_i_seq');
>
You could even use "create sequence a_i_seq owned by a.i". This would
cause the sequence to be dropped when the table is dropped which I think
is the default behaviour if you create a column with type serial.

Regards,
    Christian

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