From: Basil Bourque <basil.bourque@pobox.com>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Mention new `GENERATED … AS IDENTITY` feature in the `Serial Types` page ?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:40:24 -0700
Message-ID: <7637CE20-AA33-48C4-AEBA-A0F591F87235@pobox.com> (raw)
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I suggest adding a mention of `GENERATED … AS IDENTITY` as a replacement for `SERIAL` in the “Serial Types” section 8.1.4 of the “Data Types” page.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/datatype-numeric.html#datatype-serial
Postgres 10 sports a new `GENERATED … AS IDENTITY` for an identity column to effectively replace the `SERIAL` pseudo-type.
See “PostgreSQL 10 identity columns explained” post for a discussion of the various issues that plague `SERIAL` but not identity columns.
https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-10-identity-columns/
Seems a shame to let the naïve reader continue using `SERIAL` without knowing about identity column feature.
—Basil Bourque
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