From adce8912e63ade2ca5bba674fcbad860a73888fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:55:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention identity column feature in section on serial
Reported-by: Basil Bourque <basil.bourque@pobox.com>
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doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 5f881a0b74b..512756df4af 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -837,6 +837,14 @@ FROM generate_series(-3.5, 3.5, 1) as x;
<secondary>and serial type</secondary>
</indexterm>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ This section describes a PostgreSQL-specific way to create an
+ autoincrementing column. Another way is to use the SQL-standard
+ identity column feature, described at <xref linkend="sql-createtable">.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
The data types <type>smallserial</type>, <type>serial</type> and
<type>bigserial</type> are not true types, but merely