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Add smallserial pseudotype.

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This is just like serial and bigserial, except it generates an int2
column rather than int4 or int8.

Mike Pultz, reviewed by Brar Piening and Josh Kupershmidt
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Robert Haas 2011-06-21 22:52:52 -04:00
parent 7095003cbe
commit 61307dccc5
4 changed files with 40 additions and 5 deletions
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doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
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@ -198,6 +198,12 @@
<entry>signed two-byte integer</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>smallserial</type></entry>
<entry><type>serial2</type></entry>
<entry>autoincrementing two-byte integer</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>serial</type></entry>
<entry><type>serial4</type></entry>
@ -368,6 +374,13 @@
<entry>15 decimal digits precision</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>smallserial</type></entry>
<entry>2 bytes</entry>
<entry>small autoincrementing integer</entry>
<entry>1 to 32767</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>serial</></entry>
<entry>4 bytes</entry>
@ -742,6 +755,10 @@ NUMERIC
<sect2 id="datatype-serial">
<title>Serial Types</title>
<indexterm zone="datatype-serial">
<primary>smallserial</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm zone="datatype-serial">
<primary>serial</primary>
</indexterm>
@ -750,6 +767,10 @@ NUMERIC
<primary>bigserial</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm zone="datatype-serial">
<primary>serial2</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm zone="datatype-serial">
<primary>serial4</primary>
</indexterm>
@ -769,8 +790,8 @@ NUMERIC
</indexterm>
<para>
The data types <type>serial</type> and <type>bigserial</type>
are not true types, but merely
The data types <type>smallserial</type>, <type>serial</type> and
<type>bigserial</type> are not true types, but merely
a notational convenience for creating unique identifier columns
(similar to the <literal>AUTO_INCREMENT</literal> property
supported by some other databases). In the current
@ -828,7 +849,9 @@ ALTER SEQUENCE <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable>_<replaceab
the same way, except that they create a <type>bigint</type>
column. <type>bigserial</type> should be used if you anticipate
the use of more than 2<superscript>31</> identifiers over the
lifetime of the table.
lifetime of the table. The type names <type>smallserial</type> and
<type>serial2</type> also work the same way, execpt that they
create a <type>smallint</type> column.
</para>
<para>

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doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
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@ -844,6 +844,11 @@ do
<entry><type>double</type></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>smallserial</type></entry>
<entry><type>short</type></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><type>serial</type></entry>
<entry><type>int</type></entry>

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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
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@ -13366,7 +13366,7 @@ SELECT pg_type_is_visible('myschema.widget'::regtype);
<row>
<entry><literal><function>pg_get_serial_sequence(<parameter>table_name</parameter>, <parameter>column_name</parameter>)</function></literal></entry>
<entry><type>text</type></entry>
<entry>get name of the sequence that a <type>serial</type> or <type>bigserial</type> column
<entry>get name of the sequence that a <type>serial</type>, <type>smallserial</type> or <type>bigserial</type> column
uses</entry>
</row>
<row>

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src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c
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@ -307,7 +307,14 @@ transformColumnDefinition(CreateStmtContext *cxt, ColumnDef *column)
{
char *typname = strVal(linitial(column->typeName->names));
if (strcmp(typname, "serial") == 0 ||
if (strcmp(typname, "smallserial") == 0 ||
strcmp(typname, "serial2") == 0)
{
is_serial = true;
column->typeName->names = NIL;
column->typeName->typeOid = INT2OID;
}
else if (strcmp(typname, "serial") == 0 ||
strcmp(typname, "serial4") == 0)
{
is_serial = true;