SEQUENCES and COPY FROM

From: Mike Embry <membry(at)nserv(dot)sps(dot)mot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: SEQUENCES and COPY FROM
Date: 1998-07-14 20:37:31
Message-ID: 35ABC18A.E0F85AB0@nserv.sps.mot.com
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In the process of upgrading from 6.1 to 6.3.2+patches at long last.
Just bumped into an interesting
problem with sequences. With 6.1, you could use sequences with COPY
FROM. This no longer
seems to be true with 6.3.2+patches. INSERT and UPDATE still work fine
but when using COPY FROM
all sequence fields are either 0 or NULL.

Can live without but curious if it's a bug or feature? Maybe fixed in
6.4? Wasn't COPY FROM changed
at the time pg_shadow was added?

Here's the affected schema:

CREATE SEQUENCE history_seq;

CREATE TABLE history (
gid INTEGER,
state TEXT,
dtin DATETIME,
dtout DATETIME,
seqno INTEGER DEFAULT nextval('history_seq') NOT NULL
);

MikE

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