Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL

Le dimanche 1 novembre 2009 à 13:24:10, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 23:48:45, Tom Lane a écrit :
> >> Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> > How is pgAdmin determining the serial type in this case?
> >>
> >> Most likely it's looking for the pg_depend entry that shows the sequence
> >> as being "owned by" the column. However, that's an oversimplification
> >> of reality. I would imagine that pgAdmin will lie to you in exactly
> >> the same cases that used to break pg_dump (notably, where someone has
> >> manually adjusted either the default expression or the sequence...)
> >
> > I've just read this. I wasn't aware of this. Should we suppress this
> > behavior of pgAdmin?
>
> Do you have a proposed fix? I suspect people won't want us to stop
> showing columns as 'SERIAL' when they actually were created that way.
>

Other ideas than doing what pg_dump does? I'm afraid not.

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