From 081871bc20cc8b28481109b8dcadc321e177e6be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariusz Felisiak Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:42:44 +0200 Subject: Refs #30511 -- Updated docs about auto-incrementing primary keys on PostgreSQL. Follow up to 2eea361eff58dd98c409c5227064b901f41bd0d6. --- docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt | 2 +- docs/ref/databases.txt | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/ref') diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt index 1b8f54495a..2a4e082869 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ This command should produce the following output: -- Create model WorldBorder -- CREATE TABLE "world_worldborder" ( - "id" bigserial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, + "id" bigint NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY, "name" varchar(50) NOT NULL, "area" integer NOT NULL, "pop2005" integer NOT NULL, diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 442b1a15a3..4b86e24795 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -291,9 +291,9 @@ live for the duration of the transaction. Manually-specifying values of auto-incrementing primary keys ------------------------------------------------------------ -Django uses PostgreSQL's `SERIAL data type`_ to store auto-incrementing primary -keys. A ``SERIAL`` column is populated with values from a `sequence`_ that -keeps track of the next available value. Manually assigning a value to an +Django uses PostgreSQL's identity columns to store auto-incrementing primary +keys. An identity column is populated with values from a `sequence`_ that keeps +track of the next available value. Manually assigning a value to an auto-incrementing field doesn't update the field's sequence, which might later cause a conflict. For example:: @@ -310,7 +310,11 @@ If you need to specify such values, reset the sequence afterward to avoid reusing a value that's already in the table. The :djadmin:`sqlsequencereset` management command generates the SQL statements to do that. -.. _SERIAL data type: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL +.. versionchanged:: 4.1 + + In older versions, PostgreSQL’s ``SERIAL`` data type was used instead of + identity columns. + .. _sequence: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createsequence.html Test database templates -- cgit v1.3