Re: MySQL to Postgres question

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

I am not sure about 8.3 but certainly earlier releases of PostgreSQL
would have specific dependency issues when a sequence was applied to a
a column after the fact, versus using the serial or bigserial
psuedo-types.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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You still get an error if creating a table that specifies a sequence that does not exist yet.    I like to control the name of the sequence, plus the starting values or change the incrementing values.

I might have read something wrong but using serial tells PostgreSQL to automatic transforms.

CREATE TABLE tablename (   colname SERIAL

to 

CREATE SEQUENCE tablename_colname_seq;
CREATE TABLE tablename (   colname integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('tablename_colname_seq'));

I copied this from the help files.