I intend to make 'serial' and 'serial8' domains of the int4 and int8 datatypes. Now they're regular types and columns in \d will be marked as such. This leaves analyze.c to create the defaults but no longer will it be doing any datatype conversions.
pg_dump and psql will be taught to ignore the default of 'serial' and 'serial8' datatypes. Perhaps a 'system_generated' flag on pg_attrdef would be more appropriate? We'd also be going with the assumption in pg_dump that a sequence name will be generated the same way in future versions (see prior discussion in hackers). ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
