I wish to know regarding auto-increment field.I learn that the required table definition would be something like --CREATE TABLE tablename ( colname SERIAL
);
For more granular control over the size of field, I need to do the following---
CREATE SEQUENCE user_id_seq;
CREATE TABLE user (
user_id smallint NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('user_id_seq')
);
ALTER SEQUENCE user_id_seq OWNED BY user.user_id;
I am not pinpointing MySQL v/s Postgres; but since I am accustomed to using simply "AUTOINCREMENT" in MySQL,
I find this a bit cumbersome procedure.
1] Is there any simpler way of doing this?
2] Whether the development team has this point in their TO DO list for future release of postgres?
Thanks,
Vineet
