doc: Mention identity column feature in section on serial

Reported-by: Basil Bourque 

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 5f881a0b74bac88a3beb27363e892fab1b2e96b0..512756df4afccbbb4a26c2593aefd9bf635751b1 100644 (file)
--- 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;
      and serial type
     
 
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+     
+      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 .
+     
+    
+
     
      The data types smallserial, serial and
      bigserial are not true types, but merely