> Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> No, I think it should *only* substitute for NULL. Why assume
> >> zero is special?
>
> > As I remember this is how SERIAL works in Informix.
>
> Ah. OK, if that's what they do then I agree we ought to act the same.
I hope that this wasn't to say that the SERIAL should substitute for 0
as well as NULL. That would be quite annoying. I say stick to NULL.
If all the other DB's in the world want to shoot themselves in the foot
I don't think we should follow their example.