On 2020-08-03 14:58, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> May be generated and identity columns are good things. I have nothing
> against them.
> But what preventing us from providing the similar behavior for
> serial/bigseries types?
In my mind, serial/bigserial is deprecated and it's not worth spending
effort on patching them up.
One thing we could do is change serial/bigserial to expand to identity
column definitions instead of the current behavior.
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