Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA911337B83 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:40:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61358-05 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:40:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:34:00.527053 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com (mail-pw0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CF41337A5D for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:40:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so2422593pwi.19 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.204.17 with SMTP id b17mr547233wfg.151.1302619273723; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Issac.consistentstate.com (173-164-51-9-colorado.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.164.51.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x11sm9781905wfd.13.2011.04.12.07.41.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DA46486.9050808@consistentstate.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:41:10 -0600 From: CS DBA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110318 Red Hat/3.1.9-3.el6_0 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Postgres Admin Subject: what is a serial_fkey data type? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/114 X-Sequence-Number: 37295 I'm seeing a number of serial_fkey data types in one of our databases (postgresql 8.4) but I dont find this data type in the docs. Where does this come from? Thanks in advance --