Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch
Date: 2007-04-05 04:39:22
Message-ID: 18616.1175747962@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> Tom Lane rta:
>> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>>> Yes. Plain SERIALs can be updated with given values
>>> whereas IDENTITY columns cannot.
>>
>> Really? How is pg_dump going to deal with that?

> It emits ALTER TABLE ... SET GENERATED AS IDENTITY
> after ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY and if any of the
> columns is IDENTITY or GENERATED then it emits
> COPY OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE in my patch already.

And you fail to see the irony in that? You might as well just
admit that it's OK to update an identity column.

regards, tom lane

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