Re: pg_dump and sequences (bug ?)

Also, given this and your previous operator commutator problem, I
strongly suspect that someone has taken an axe to the system catalogs on
your installation and they are very screwy.

Chris

strk wrote:

> Using pg_dump from postgresql 7.3.4 I've obtained
> a dump file containing a SEQUENCE SET with no
> corresponding SEQUENCE. I've seen that this is usually
> due to the presence of a table with a 'serial' field,
> but since in this case there is no such table I wonder
> if this is a bug in pg_dump.
>
> The only reason I can imagine for this is pg_dump taking
> any sequence whose name ends in _seq as being associated
> to a table, no matter if that table exists and has a 'serial'
> field. Is this possible ? Shouldn't this kind of dependency
> be coded somehow ?
>
> TIA
>
> --strk;
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