| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) |
| Cc: | clark(dot)evans(at)manhattanproject(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: OID vs SERIAL? (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Sequences....) |
| Date: | 1999-03-18 05:16:43 |
| Message-ID: | 199903180516.AAA24535@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I think it'd still be a good idea to have a system table containing the
> mapping from SERIAL columns to (OIDs of) their associated sequences.
> The atttypmod idea is just a trick to bypass having to do lookups in
> this table for the most common operations on a SERIAL column.
But what use would a new system table be, if the atttypmod can do it for
us?
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