Re: sequences and pg_upgrade

23.09.2016 21:06, Peter Eisentraut:
> Here is an updated patch set. Compared to the initial set, I have
> changed pg_dump's sorting priorities so that sequence data is always
> after table data. This would otherwise have introduced a problem
> because sortDataAndIndexObjectsBySize() only considers consecutive
> DO_TABLE_DATA entries. Also, I have removed the separate
> --sequence-data switch from pg_dump and made it implicit in
> --binary-upgrade. (So the previous patches 0002 and 0003 have been
> combined, because it's no longer a separate feature.)
>

The patches are good, no complaints.
But again, I have the same question.
I was confused, why do we always dump sequence data,
because I'd overlooked the --sequence-data key. I'd rather leave this
option,
because it's quite non intuitive behaviour...
/* dump sequence data even in schema-only mode */

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