On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:17:10 -0500
"Adam Rich" <adam.r@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > The short answer is that Adam's statement is wrong, or at least
> > misleading.
>
> Sorry Tom, I wasn't trying to do either. Joshua Drake (who I
> understand to be a reliable source of postgresql information) said
> that applying a sequence to a column after creation created issues,
> versus using the serial type which did not.
Right but as Tom reminded me, the behavior I was referring to was pre
8.3 and in (I believe) it was 8.2 we introduced alter sequence options
to fix the problem.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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