Re: Primary key definition?

>
> > CREATE TABLE books (
> > id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
> >
> > Which has the advantage of not having to manually create the sequences.
> Will
> > this also enforce that the "internally created sequence" will be
> initialized
> > to a value above the maximum key in use on a pg_restore?
>

I think you will still run into the same issue if your sequence is not
getting the proper value as max(id) or max(id) +1, not sure which is
actually needed. You may get some benefits from using IDENTITY rather than
the pseudo-type of serial, as described in this blog post-

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-10-identity-columns/

Still, depending on how you are doing the data restore, you may need
something like this to ensure the sequence is updated.

select setval( 'table_id_seq', ( select max(id) + 1 from table ) );