Re: [8.0.3] Not dumping all sequences ...

I should point out that the bug I reported about dependencies and
changing the type of a serial column still exists.

Once you change a serial column to something else, you cannot ever
change the default IIRC...

Chris

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>
>>On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>Well, that second line is *definitely* a SERIAL column linkage.
>>>
>>>Is it possible they did "create table xa_url(id bigserial, ...)" and
>>>then later changed the default expression for the column?
>
>
>>'k, am checking into this ... is it a simple matter of removing that
>>second record above from pg_depend to "fix" the pg_dump issue, or
>>something more involved then that?
>
>
> AFAIR, removing that pg_depend entry would be enough to decouple the
> sequence so it appears as an independent object in the pg_dump output.
> However, I'm still wondering exactly what is wrong, if anything ---
> does the pg_dump output not reload correctly? If so, what happens
> exactly when you try?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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