On May 10, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Carol Walter wrote:
And this is more than a question than an answer, but I thought that sequences had to designated as data type "serial."

Nope... sequences are actually completely un-related to tables. You can define a sequence that's not referenced by any table. The serial data type is essentially a 'macro' that:

Creates a sequence
Sets the default value for the field to be the nextval() of that sequence
Sets the field to be NOT NULL
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Jim Nasby                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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