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by masklinn 5412 days ago
> It also has a single feature that I find incredibly cool: it supports automatically generated row IDs. It's been a while since I last tried Oracle and Postgres, but at the time you had to create a second table just for a sequence number and it was extremely awkward to handle.

Must have been a while indeed. Postgres's SERIAL datatype has been available at least since 6.4. Postgres 6.4 was released in 1998.