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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
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Subject: Re: Use of reference table ('look-up-table') and FK constraint
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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.