Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump
Date: 2006-02-07 14:49:02
Message-ID: 200602071449.k17En2e18501@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > testseq=# CREATE TABLE test(id SERIAL, data TEXT);
> > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test_id_seq" for
> > serial column "test.id"
> > CREATE TABLE
> > ***
> > ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('test_id_seq') * 10;
>
> The correct solution to this is to forbid ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT on
> a serial column, but we haven't gotten around to enforcing that yet.

TODO has:

* %Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column

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