Re: select from sequences

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: select from sequences
Date: 2007-02-12 05:22:48
Message-ID: 22697.1171257768@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> and why is this a feature? i mean, what real use it has?

To find out the parameters of an existing sequence. Remove it and
you'll break pg_dump, to say nothing of any other application.

regards, tom lane

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