| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> | 
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| To: | David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | abelisto(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: BUG #15343: Segmentation fault using pg_dump with --exclude-table if table contains identity column | 
| Date: | 2018-08-21 01:19:49 | 
| Message-ID: | 20180821011949.r5ogh32qluf56na6@alvherre.pgsql | 
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On 2018-Aug-21, David Rowley wrote:
> > To reproduce:
> > $ createdb foo
> > $ psql foo -c "create table bar(i int generated by default as identity
> > primary key);"
> > $ pg_dump foo --exclude-table=bar
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> I think the fix depends exactly on what we want the behaviour to be
> here.  Should dumpSequence() still dump out a CREATE SEQUENCE
> statement for this, or should we just ignore the sequence?  I imagine
> we should just ignore identity sequences when we're not going to dump
> the table that owns them. It looks like that would require a small
> modification in getOwnedSeqs().
Yeah, we should omit the sequence too.  I don't see any principled
reason to think that the sequence is interesting on its own.
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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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