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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Confusing behavior of create table like
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In response to Re: Confusing behavior of create table like  (Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Confusing behavior of create table like  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 2020-08-03 14:58, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> May be generated and identity columns are good things. I have nothing
> against them.
> But what preventing us from providing the similar behavior for
> serial/bigseries types?

In my mind, serial/bigserial is deprecated and it's not worth spending 
effort on patching them up.

One thing we could do is change serial/bigserial to expand to identity 
column definitions instead of the current behavior.

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