X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354EA329FE3 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:35:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81214-02 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server226.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.226]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B1A329E7D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:35:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 6538310; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:36:51 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Troels Arvin Subject: Re: SQL 2003 conformance Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:35:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <200410121952.24859.peter_e@gmx.net> <200410192306.07434.peter_e@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410210935.03857.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200410/54 X-Sequence-Number: 2623 Troels, > I believe that PostgreSQL 8 doesn't implement SQL:2003's IDENTITY columns, You're correct. Mind you, IDENTITY was a mistake, and I'm happy we don't implement it. > Sequences are allmost implemented, except PostgreSQL doesn't have the NEXT > VALUE FOR (uses nextval()). As NEXT VALUE FOR functionality is rather > important for sequences, one might say that it's important for the syntax > to be equal here. Hmmm ... good point. Would be worth bringing up on Hackers as a TODO suggestion. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco