Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> So, I should allow DROP DEFAULT, implement
> SET DEFAULT GENERATED ALWAYS AS
> and modify the catalog so the GENERATED property
> is part of pg_attrdef.

Sounds good.

> What about IDENTITY?
> Should it also be part of pg_attrdef? There are two ways
> to implement it: have or don't have a notion of it.
> The latter would treat GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY
> the same as SERIAL.

Is there any good reason to distinguish the two?

            regards, tom lane