possible bug with sequences

Colleagues,

What is the internal difference between an implicit sequence (created
automatically by the "serial" data type) and an explicit sequence
(created manually)?

I think I have hit something that can qualify as a bug. How to
reproduce:

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reports=# CREATE TABLE sometable (id serial, name text);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "sometable_id_seq" for "serial" column "sometable.id"
CREATE TABLE
reports=# ALTER TABLE sometable RENAME TO othername;
ALTER TABLE
reports=# \d othername
Table "admin.othername"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------
id | integer | not null default nextval('admin.sometable_id_seq'::text)
name | text |

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Voila! pg_restore will now return an error on trying to execute
SELECT pg_catalog.setval('sometable_id_seq', 4, true);
because this sequence has not been created either explicitly or implicitly!

It is 100% reproducible on postgresql-7.4.1

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