| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
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| To: | Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Adding a pg_get_owned_sequence function? |
| Date: | 2023-09-12 07:33:54 |
| Message-ID: | 4970adf1-cdb0-9ae5-d405-e9c3395d9931@eisentraut.org |
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On 09.06.23 21:19, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> I've always been annoyed by the fact that pg_get_serial_sequence takes
> the table and returns the sequence as strings rather than regclass. And
> since identity columns were added, the name is misleading as well (which
> is even acknowledged in the docs, together with a suggestion for a
> better name).
If you are striving for less misleading terminology, note that the
concept of an "owned sequence" does not exist for users of identity
sequences, and ALTER SEQUENCE / OWNED BY cannot be used for such sequences.
Would it work to just overload pg_get_serial_sequence with regclass
argument types?
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