Re: Is a SERIAL column a "black box", or not? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Is a SERIAL column a "black box", or not?
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Msg-id 19067.1146366920@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Is a SERIAL column a "black box", or not?  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: Is a SERIAL column a "black box", or not?
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Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca> 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


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