Re: Have psql show current sequnce values - (Resubmission)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I think we discussed replacing the current sequence representation with
> > a single relation that would contain all sequences in the database, so
> > that you could do "select * from pg_sequence" and get all the values in
> > one go. The idea was considered not implementable at the time due to us
> > not having "non transactional relations", but I'd suggest adding it to
> > the TODO so that we don't forget later.
>
> I wonder if we could kluge it by making all sequences inheritance
> children of a dummy "pg_sequence" relation. Or perhaps better,
> implement this as a system view on a set-returning function --- if there
> are lots of sequences the planner's not likely to help you much anyway.

I like the system view best.

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