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I have run into a strange problem with Postgres 9 on Mac OS X, I have the following statement which works on Windows Postgres but on on Mac OS postgres
CREATE DOMAIN pkey_domain AS SERIAL PRIMARY KEY;
returns
ERROR: type “serial” does not exist
*** Error ***
ERROR: type “serial” does not exist
SQL state: 42704
SERIAL is a data type that is supported by postgres why am I not able to create a Domain with it? Does the deafult installer on the Mac not create the type?
Serial isn’t really a type, it is a kind of macro that creates the sequence for you, sets the default value of the column, etc. It is not referenced in pg_type. So you can’t use it like this.