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doc: Mention identity column feature in section on serial 

Reported-by: default avatarBasil Bourque <basil.bourque@pobox.com>
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doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
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...@@ -837,6 +837,14 @@ FROM generate_series(-3.5, 3.5, 1) as x; ...@@ -837,6 +837,14 @@ FROM generate_series(-3.5, 3.5, 1) as x;
<secondary>and serial type</secondary> <secondary>and serial type</secondary>
</indexterm> </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> <para>
The data types <type>smallserial</type>, <type>serial</type> and The data types <type>smallserial</type>, <type>serial</type> and
<type>bigserial</type> are not true types, but merely <type>bigserial</type> are not true types, but merely
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