Re: SERIAL parameters

You can create the sequence manually and define that a the default for
the column. I suppose we could pass the create sequence params through
SERIAL but there doesn't seem like there is much demand for it.

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Arnold Putong wrote:
> Would it be possible to have parameters in the SERIAL datatype?
>
> CREATE TABLE x { ID SERIAL(100, 10) }
>
> means ID starts at 100 and will be incremented by 10. And it would be
> nice to have
>
> CREATE TABLE x { ID SERIAL(0,0) }
>
> mean that ID will be issued random non-repeating values (period=2^bitwidth
> of type). This is most likely useful in replication/merging data.
>
>
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