Re: SEQUENCEs and NO MAXVALUE NO MINVALUE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SEQUENCEs and NO MAXVALUE NO MINVALUE
Date: 2003-01-23 01:37:24
Message-ID: 26221.1043285844@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> Adds in NO MAXVALUE and NO MINVALUE options for create sequence per 200X
> spec, which will also make alter sequence a touch easier.

What are these supposed to do exactly? There is no such animal as a
sequence that hasn't got a maxvalue, nor one without a minvalue.
"Large" does not mean "unlimited".

I'm not eager to pick up evidently-poorly-thought-out features from a
draft spec that is nowhere near being frozen. Anyway, didn't we decide
that converging syntax with 200X was a bad idea if we weren't going to
converge semantics?

regards, tom lane

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