"Rod Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running:
> ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN column SERIAL;
> Defines a column as int4 but does not create the sequence or attempt
> to set the default value.
Yeah ... SERIAL is implemented as a hack in the parsing of CREATE
TABLE, but there's no corresponding hack in ALTER TABLE. A bug,
no doubt about it, but I don't much like the obvious fix of duplicating
the hack in two places. Isn't there a cleaner way to deal with this
"data type"?
regards, tom lane
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