Re: [HACKERS] DROPping tables with SERIALs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vadim Mikheev
Subject Re: [HACKERS] DROPping tables with SERIALs
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Msg-id 366273EE.C4007810@krs.ru
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] DROPping tables with SERIALs  (Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:
> 
>         >>> Another question is whether a SERIAL field should automatically
> be
>         >>> UNIQUE (ie, create a unique index on it to prevent mistakes in
> manual
>         >>> insertion of values for the field).
>         >
>         >> Once again - I would like to see SERIAL compatible with
>         >> SERIAL/IDENTY in other RDBMSes.
>         >
>         >Yes, and?  What do the other ones do?
> 
> In Informix you need to create the unique index explicitly. I like this
> because it keeps
> things flexible. The unique constraint could be on a compount key.

Agreed.

Vadim


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