Re: Update to equivalent SQL in 8.1.4. Serial Types - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Update to equivalent SQL in 8.1.4. Serial Types
Date
Msg-id 893e471c-967d-7f00-44db-7887753ccc53@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Update to equivalent SQL in 8.1.4. Serial Types  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On 2019-02-20 13:47, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> CREATE TABLE tablename (
>     colname SERIAL
> );
> 
> is equivalent to
> 
> CREATE SEQUENCE tablename_colname_seq;
> CREATE TABLE tablename (
>     colname integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('tablename_colname_seq')
> );
> ALTER SEQUENCE tablename_colname_seq OWNED BY tablename.colname;
> 
> Since Postgres 10, the datatype of the automatically-created sequence
> matches the datatype of the serial column. But the default type for
> CREATE SEQUENCE remains as bigint. So the second block should start with
> the line
> 
> CREATE SEQUENCE tablename_colname_seq AS INTEGER;

fixed

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