Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch
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Msg-id 2268.1175716800@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch  (Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch
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Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> Tom Lane �rta:
>>> The latter would treat GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY
>>> the same as SERIAL.

>> Is there any good reason to distinguish the two?

> Yes. Plain SERIALs can be updated with given values
> whereas IDENTITY columns cannot.

Really?  How is pg_dump going to deal with that?

            regards, tom lane

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