Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Identity columns - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Identity columns
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Msg-id 6ed8f35e-50be-367f-4e05-8aeea6c87bd5@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Identity columns  (David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 4/6/17 23:13, David Rowley wrote:
> On 7 April 2017 at 00:44, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Identity columns
>>
>> This is the SQL standard-conforming variant of PostgreSQL's serial
>> columns.  It fixes a few usability issues that serial columns have:
>>
>> - CREATE TABLE / LIKE copies default but refers to same sequence
>> - cannot add/drop serialness with ALTER TABLE
>> - dropping default does not drop sequence
>> - need to grant separate privileges to sequence
>> - other slight weirdnesses because serial is some kind of special macro
>
> Attached is a small patch which fixes up a warning for compilers not
> smart enough to know the elog(ERROR) does not return.

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