From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | pgsql-patches(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Proposed patch for sequence-renaming problems |
Date: | 2005-09-27 22:46:55 |
Message-ID: | 29471.1127861215@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Attached is a fully-worked-out patch to make SERIAL column default
expressions refer to the target sequence with a "regclass" literal
instead of a "text" literal. Since the regclass literal is actually
just an OID, it is impervious to renamings and schema changes of
the target sequence. This fixes the long-standing hazard of renaming
a serial column's sequence, as well as the recently added hazard of
renaming the schema the sequence is in; and it lets us get rid of a
very klugy solution in ALTER TABLE SET SCHEMA.
I've arranged for stored regclass literals to create dependencies on
the referenced relation, which provides useful improvements even for
handwritten defaults: given
create sequence myseq;
create table foo (f1 int default nextval('myseq'::regclass));
the system will not allow myseq to be dropped while the default
expression remains. (This also ensures that pg_dump will emit the
sequence before the table.)
The patch also fixes a couple of places where code was still looking
at the deprecated pg_attrdef.adsrc column, instead of reverse-compiling
pg_attrdef.adbin. This ensures that psql's \d command shows the
up-to-date form of a column default. (That should have happened quite
some time ago; not sure why it was overlooked.)
I propose applying this to fix the open issue that ALTER SCHEMA RENAME
breaks serial columns. Comments, objections?
regards, tom lane
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