From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Arnold Putong <arnold@engg.upd.edu.ph>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SERIAL parameters
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200208281509.g7SF9gS17089@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64261.10.33.12.1.1030507385.squirrel@www.engg.upd.edu.ph>
You can create the sequence manually and define that a the default for
the column. I suppose we could pass the create sequence params through
SERIAL but there doesn't seem like there is much demand for it.
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Arnold Putong wrote:
> Would it be possible to have parameters in the SERIAL datatype?
>
> CREATE TABLE x { ID SERIAL(100, 10) }
>
> means ID starts at 100 and will be incremented by 10. And it would be
> nice to have
>
> CREATE TABLE x { ID SERIAL(0,0) }
>
> mean that ID will be issued random non-repeating values (period=2^bitwidth
> of type). This is most likely useful in replication/merging data.
>
>
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