Re: nextval parameter is not clear - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 12:40 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:

On Thu, 2022-11-24 at 15:50 -0500, Kirk Wolak wrote:
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> David, let me see how that looks.  From an approach standpoint, I am hearing:

I think it would be better to create the sequence explicitly and use
it in the DEFAULT clause of a column definition.

I wasn't too happy with that comment when I wrote it either.

I would probably do without the DEFAULT if going the explicit route (but it isn't a deal breaker).

However, I remembered that we have:

pg_get_serial_sequence ( table text, column text ) → text

I'd be inclined to stay with the GENERATED example but incorporate that function call into the other examples.

Regardless of the above choice for the example, it seems appropriate for this page, somewhere, to mention this function and link to its page.

I'd even argue for moving that function definition here.

David J.