Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> All of them? PostgreSQL allow multiple SERIALs to be present,
> the standard allows only one IDENTITY column in a table.
> And what about this case below?
> 
> CREATE TABLE t1 (id1 serial, ...);
> ALTER SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 RESTART WITH 5432 CYCLE;
> 
> or the equivalent
> 
> CREATE SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 START WITH 5432 CYCLE;
> CREATE TABLE t1 (id1 serial, ...);
> ALTER SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 OWNED BY t1.id1;
> 
> PostgreSQL doesn't keep the START WITH information.
> But it should to perform a "restart" on the sequence,
> using the minval in this case wouldn't be correct.

I do think we need to wait for the standard to be accepted before adding
them to the TODO list as standard-compliant additions, especially
because no one is asking for the syntax yet.

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