On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 01:49, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Looks like they've caught up on a lot of our features. I have to say I
> appreciate them adding SERIAL as an alias for AUTO_INCREMENT. Perhaps we
> should return the favour? :)
Well, it's not the same as PostgreSQL's serial (which is a 32-bit NOT
NULL incrementing integer -- MySQL's serial is a 64-bit unique, NOT NULL
incrementing integer).
Personally, I think the implementations are different enough that making
AUTO_INCREMENT an alias for SERIAL on the PostgreSQL side of things
would just confuse the situation further...
Cheers,
Neil
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