Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> I am not sure about 8.3 but certainly earlier releases of PostgreSQL
> would have specific dependency issues when a sequence was applied to a
> a column after the fact, versus using the serial or bigserial
> psuedo-types.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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You still get an error if creating a table that specifies a sequence
that does not exist yet. I like to control the name of the sequence,
plus the starting values or change the incrementing values.

I might have read something wrong but using serial tells PostgreSQL to
automatic transforms.

CREATE TABLE /|tablename|/ (
/|colname|/ SERIAL

to

CREATE SEQUENCE /|tablename|/_/|colname|/_seq;
CREATE TABLE /|tablename|/ (
/|colname|/ integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('/|tablename|/_/|colname|/_seq'));

I copied this from the help files.