Re: pgsql-server/src/backend commands/sequence.c p ...

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Bruce Momjian - CVS <momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql-server/src/backend commands/sequence.c p ...
Date: 2003-02-13 19:20:26
Message-ID: 200302131920.h1DJKQH05138@candle.pha.pa.us
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Rod Taylor wrote:
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> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:00, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I am not thrilled to see those huge integers in the dump file for
> > sequences. It would be good to test for these in pg_dump and output
> > those symbols instead. i don't think we need to store them as bools ---
> > just make the tests to see if the values matches these symbol values.
>
> I have no problem with that -- but it does change the way pg_dump
> functions for pre-7.4 sequences.

We already don't support loading 7.4 dumps into pre-7.4 dumps, I
thought. We can test the version we are dumping and only use the
symbols for >- 7.4 --- don't we do that in other places?

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