Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity
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Msg-id alpine.LNX.2.20.1904191111050.24219@salmo.appl-ecosys.com
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In response to Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity  (Michel Pelletier <pelletier.michel@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
> "The data types smallserial, serial and bigserial are not true types, but
> merely a notational convenience for creating unique identifier columns"
> so really there's no difference, what you have is fine.

Michel,

That's what I thought. And confirmation is always valuable.

Regards,

Rich



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