Re: select issue with order v8.1

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Terry <td3201(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I am somewhat confused.  My app is detecting it as a serial data type
>> but describing the table shows that its an integer.  What am I
>> missing?
>
>> dssystem=# \d clients_event_log
>>                                        Table "public.clients_event_log"
>>      Column     |          Type           |
>>  Modifiers
>> ----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  ev_id          | integer                 | not null default
>> nextval('clients_event_log_ev_id_seq'::regclass)
>
> Nothing.  "Serial" is nothing but a shorthand for an integer column
> with a default like that.

And a dependency for the sequence on the column. I wonder if Terry's
application is sorting through dep info to make a bad decision...