Re: BUG #5629: ALTER SEQUENCE foo START execute a RESTART

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alexsander Rosa <alexsander(dot)rosa(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5629: ALTER SEQUENCE foo START execute a RESTART
Date: 2010-09-01 20:55:10
Message-ID: 1283374471-sup-8293@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Euler Taveira de Oliveira's message of mié sep 01 10:18:10 -0400 2010:
> Tom Lane escreveu:
> > I'm not inclined to go and retroactively document that these spellings
> > are possible but deprecated in the old branches. I think that would
> > just confuse matters even more.
>
> Is it worth preventing that sloppy implementation in the old branches?

That risks removing a (mis)feature that people are currently depending on.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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