Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913E31337B9C for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:04:54 -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 76842-05 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:04:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from delta01.pnet.xcon.it (delta01.pnet.xcon.it [62.48.53.16]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE6B1337A5D for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:04:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by delta01.pnet.xcon.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739B0103423D7; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:04:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at delta01.pnet.xcon.it Received: from delta01.pnet.xcon.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (delta01.pnet.xcon.it [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id BbSNxr6ADdKQ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from macbook-di-gabriele-bartolini.local (unknown [83.149.163.202]) (Authenticated sender: gabriele.bartolini@devise.it) by delta01.pnet.xcon.it (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12EBC1033C160; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DA47818.1040505@2ndQuadrant.it> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:04:40 +0200 From: Gabriele Bartolini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; it; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CS DBA CC: Postgres Admin Subject: Re: what is a serial_fkey data type? References: <4DA46486.9050808@consistentstate.com> In-Reply-To: <4DA46486.9050808@consistentstate.com> 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: 201104/116 X-Sequence-Number: 37297 Hi, Il 12/04/11 16:41, CS DBA ha scritto: > 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? Usually, the '_fkey' suffix is used to identify a foreign key constraint. Cheers, Gabriele -- Gabriele Bartolini - 2ndQuadrant Italia PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support gabriele.bartolini@2ndQuadrant.it | www.2ndQuadrant.it