Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 pg_dump setval() sets wrong value

On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 7:18:01 am Greg Donald wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> > So how are the sequences being tied to the tables? In your previous post
> > the table definitions did not show a SERIAL type or a default of
> > nextval().
>
> The id columns were created using "id serial NOT NULL".
>
> I've gone back this morning and pulled older backups, from when I was
> using pg_dump that came with my PostgreSQL 8.4 install. Those backups
> look fine to me, all the setval() calls are there and correct. So it
> looks like a problem with the new pg_dump best I can tell.

Wonder if it is related to this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2011-11/msg00098.php

Might want to file bug report:
http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug/

In the meantime what about using 8.4 pg_dump to create dump file and then using
that file to load 9.1 server.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com