From: | Hanne Moa <hanne(dot)moa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Getting the currently used sequence for a SERIAL column |
Date: | 2016-10-19 08:31:43 |
Message-ID: | 65ff537f-9ac5-1974-0d1c-aba9f2b770c4@gmail.com |
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On 2016-10-19 09:28, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> You can use the following statement to find the sequences that a table uses:
>
> select sn.nspname as sequence_schema, s.relname as sequence_name
> from pg_class s
> join pg_namespace sn on sn.oid = s.relnamespace
> join pg_depend d on d.refobjid = s.oid and d.refclassid='pg_class'::regclass
> join pg_attrdef ad on ad.oid = d.objid and d.classid = 'pg_attrdef'::regclass
> join pg_attribute col on col.attrelid = ad.adrelid and col.attnum = ad.adnum
> join pg_class tbl on tbl.oid = ad.adrelid
> join pg_namespace n on n.oid = tbl.relnamespace
> where s.relkind = 'S'
> and d.deptype in ('a', 'n')
> and n.nspname = 'public'
> and tbl.relname = 'foo'
Thanks. This assumes that there is only one nextval per table though.
While this holds for the database we need this on right now, it's not a
sufficiently generic solution. How do I, for the sake of paranoia,
specify a column?
Btw, is there a site with recipes showing what's possible to do with the
pg_*-tables?
HM
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