Postgres Identity Column

20 Jul 2020 sql

The Postgres wiki recommends not using the serial type, and instead added identity columns to replace them.

Old way:

create table todos (
  id bigserial primary key,
  todo text not null
);

The new way with identity columns:

create table todos (
  id bigint generated by default as identity primary key,
  todo text not null
);

Data:

insert into todos (todo) values
  ('write a til'),
  ('get some coffee');

select *
from todos;

 id |      todo
----+-----------------
  1 | write a til
  2 | get some coffee
(2 rows)

Dillon Hafer