| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor(at)dunaweb(dot)hu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Extended SERIAL parsing |
| Date: | 2006-06-11 23:54:10 |
| Message-ID: | 28444.1150070050@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor(at)dunaweb(dot)hu> writes:
> after some experimentation, I came up with the attached patch,
> which implements parsing the following SERIAL types:
As has been pointed out before, it would be a seriously bad idea to
implement the SQL syntax for identity columns without matching the
SQL semantics for them. That would leave us behind the eight-ball
when we wanted to implement the SQL semantics. Right now we have
a useful but non-standard semantics, and a useful but non-standard
syntax, and those two should stick together.
I'm not too happy with converting SERIAL4 and SERIAL8 into reserved
words, either, as I believe this patch does.
Some other things missing are documentation and pg_dump support.
regards, tom lane
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