Zoltan Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as the wishlist for PostgreSQL 8.4 still has my > IDENTITY/GENERATED patches, I thought I refresh it. > Before actually doing it though, I wanted to ask for opinions > on implementation and ideas.
IIRC the end conclusion on that patch was that it was awfully messy, didn't really buy much in new functionality, and was trying to track a portion of the spec that the SQL committee had apparently not gotten right yet. > It seems the last draft for SQL:2008 largely clarified details for > IDENTITY columns that were either conflicting or unclear in SQL:2003. Implementing stuff that's still changing in a *draft* standard seems to me like a good way to get burnt. I think this needs to stay on the back burner, at least until there's a published final spec that doesn't seem as broken as 2003 was. I was sufficiently disillusioned with the whole thing at the end of the previous review cycle http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00441.php that I'm not really eager to pour more time down the same hole. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
