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Re: alter table serial->int



"Erik Aronesty" <erik(at)q32(dot)com> writes:
> for some odd reason when i try to change a table fromserial to just
> plain "int with a default" postgres seems to ignore me.

What PG version?

I'd expect this to work somewhat sanely in 8.2, but in earlier versions
fooling with the default expression for a serial column is not well
supported.

> alter table custom alter id type int;

The fact that you even tried that suggests that you don't understand
very well what "serial" is.  See the manual ...

			regards, tom lane



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