From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | sl(at)scrooge(dot)dk, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Bug #755: Error on create a new sequence by using the create |
Date: | 2002-09-03 21:11:05 |
Message-ID: | 200209032111.g83LB5k28187@candle.pha.pa.us |
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7.3 will have 64 byte indentifiers, which should make this less likely.
We could randomly pick non-conflicting names, but then the serial names
would not be predicable, and because those are used by nextval(), etc,
it would be bad.
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pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote:
> Sren Laursen (sl(at)scrooge(dot)dk) reports a bug with a severity of 2
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
>
> Short Description
> Error on create a new sequence by using the create table command.
>
> Long Description
> In postgresql 7.1 and 7.2.1:
>
> Then using a statement like:
> CREATE TABLE longtablename(
> longtablenamenr serial NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,....
>
> )
>
> and later a
> CREATE TABLE longtablenamestep(
> longtablenamestepnr serial NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,....
>
> )
>
> I get an error on creating the last table. This is because the new sequence is named with the same name as the one used by the first table. The create statement is then terminated and no table is created. I would have to create the sequence my self and then create the table using statements like:
> not null default nextval('"longtablename_longtablename_sq1"'::text).
>
> Regards,
>
> Soeren Laursen
>
>
> Sample Code
>
>
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>
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