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

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alexsander Rosa <alexsander(dot)rosa(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5629: ALTER SEQUENCE foo START execute a RESTART
Date: 2010-09-08 18:57:38
Message-ID: 201009081857.o88IvcB08652@momjian.us
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Alexsander Rosa wrote:
> At 8.4 release notes, item "E.5.3.3.1. TRUNCATE" there's a sentence:
> "The start value of a sequence can be changed by ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH.
> "
>
> Maybe this sentence should be copied/moved to "E.5.3.4.1. ALTER" with extra
> text stating that START, in previous versions, was an (unintended) alias to
> RESTART -- with the wording you suggested or something like that. The advise
> to check server_version when using this command could be mentioned, also.

I don't think we have had enough people confused by this to add that
level of detail.

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