Re: Two sequences associated with one identity column

If this is a development database, perhaps you can do a schema-only pg_dump of it in plain text format, manually edit out the offending second sequence from the resulting SQL file, and restore it into a new database.

Yours,

Kurt Reimer
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From: Colin 't Hart <colinthart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 8:20 AM
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two sequences associated with one identity column

Again as I wrote above, drop identity complains about more than one sequence.

I have no idea how this customer arrived at this situation or if it
affects other environments (this is actually a dev database that we're
trying to upgrade as the first step in an upgrade project).

I suspect the dump will just show two sequences that need to be
imported and it will fail on the second one. I'll make a dump.

/Colin

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 at 13:07, hubert depesz lubaczewski
<depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Colin 't Hart wrote:
> > Thanks. But as I wrote above, trying to alter either of the two
> > sequences and specifying "owned by none" results in the error.
>
> Sorry, missed that.
>
> Can you please provide pg_dump output from this db, just schema, just
> this one table, and both sequences?
>
> Or, how did you arrive at this situation?
>
> Did you try to alter table … alter column … drop identity;
>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz
>