Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump

Tom Lane wrote:

> The correct solution to this is to forbid ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT on
> a serial column, but we haven't gotten around to enforcing that yet.

Is this per the Standard?  If so, then the oft-repeated mantra that
SERIAL is simply a macro for an INTEGER column with a particular
DEFAULT seems a bit misleading ...

- John D. Burger
   MITRE