
>> Right now, we allow PRIMARY to auto-create an index.
>> Can we have something to auto-create sequences, instead of the more
>> complicated CREATE SEQUENCE process.
>> Perhaps use the data type SERIAL to autocreate a sequence.  Should 
>> make life easier for novices.  We are getting too many sequence 
>> questions.
>
>That would be possible. I'd be happier doing it for v6.5, since I'm
>hoping to work on docs in the meantime. Of course, maybe it would be
>easy :)
>
>What should the syntax be exactly?
>
>  CREATE TABLE t (s SERIAL);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

exactly this. :-)    (like in Informix)

Informix also allows to specify a starting value like:
create table t (s serial(1000)); 
defaulting to 1 but I think this additional syntax is rather misleading

Andreas


Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:00:25 +0200
Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>
AW: [HACKERS] sequence creation
> 
> >> Right now, we allow PRIMARY to auto-create an index.
> >> Can we have something to auto-create sequences, instead of the more
> >> complicated CREATE SEQUENCE process.
> >> Perhaps use the data type SERIAL to autocreate a sequence.  Should 
> >> make life easier for novices.  We are getting too many sequence 
> >> questions.
> >
> >That would be possible. I'd be happier doing it for v6.5, since I'm
> >hoping to work on docs in the meantime. Of course, maybe it would be
> >easy :)
> >
> >What should the syntax be exactly?
> >
> >  CREATE TABLE t (s SERIAL);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> exactly this. :-)    (like in Informix)
> 
> Informix also allows to specify a starting value like:
> create table t (s serial(1000)); 
> defaulting to 1 but I think this additional syntax is rather misleading

Thanks to Thomas, this will be in 6.4.

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Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:55:29 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: AW: [HACKERS] sequence creation