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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Charles Hauser <chauser@duke.edu>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Use of reference table ('look-up-table') and FK constraint
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20021017083401.Y9470-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034863604.1760.15.camel@pandorina.biology.duke.edu>


On 17 Oct 2002, Charles Hauser wrote:

> Josh & Stephan,
>
> This helps a lot - thanks!
>
> Any idea what datatype 'Identifier_type IDENTITY' specifies?  I don't
> see this in the postgres documentation.  I'll see what I can find in
> sybase lingo.

As a rough guess, I'd say probably a serial column,
"phone_id serial primary key" is likely.




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