Re: [HACKERS] SERIAL type isn't listed...?

Serial isn't a type. The parser transforms it to int4 plus some default
and a sequence. There is a TODO item in this direction, but I think no one
is quite sure how/why/whether to do it.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> 
> Shouldn't this produce something?  Was talking with Dave Page today about
> the lack of a serial type in PgAdmin, and he mentioned that its not a listed
> type?
> 
> 
> template1=> SELECT typname FROM pg_type WHERE typrelid = 0 and typname='serial';
>  typname 
> ---------
> (0 rows)
> 
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
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