Tom Lane wrote:
The correct solution to this is to forbid ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT on a serial column, but we haven't gotten around to enforcing that yet.
Is this per the Standard? If so, then the oft-repeated mantra that SERIAL is simply a macro for an INTEGER column with a particular DEFAULT seems a bit misleading ...
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