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From Troels Arvin
Subject Re: AUTO_INCREMENT patch
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Msg-id pan.2003.08.03.20.06.29.230448@arvin.dk
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In response to AUTO_INCREMENT patch  (des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav))
Responses Re: AUTO_INCREMENT patch  (des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav))
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 18:43:23 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> It works by defining a new
> column constraint (CONSTR_AUTO_INCREMENT) which is handled specially
> by transformColumnDefinition() - after it has transformed SERIAL
> pseudo-types to the corresponding INT types

Beware that MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT and PostgreSQL's SERIAL are not
equivalent.
See http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#mix-identity

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Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark

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