Re: pg_dump/restore problem

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:51:18PM -0400, renneyt(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> I am trying to move some data from an 8.0.7 instance to a 7.4.8
> instance. I did a pg_dump and then did a pg_restore.
> For the most part the data transferred through to the older instance but
> I had problems with the sequence updates.
>
> SELECT pg_catalog.setval(pg_catalog.pg_get_serial_sequence('nw_foo',
> 'foo_id'), 678, true);
> ERROR: function pg_catalog.pg_get_serial_sequence("unknown", "unknown")
> does not exist
> HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may
> need to add explicit type casts.
>
> I am looking for a an alternative to manually issuing alter sequence
> commands.

>From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/release-8-0.html:

# Add pg_get_serial_sequence() to return a SERIAL column's sequence name
(Christopher)

This allows automated scripts to reliably find the SERIAL sequence name.

If you use a 7.x copy of pg_dump it might work, though there could be
catalog changes that make that a problem.
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