Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 pg_dump setval() sets wrong value

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Donald <gdonald(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 pg_dump setval() sets wrong value
Date: 2011-12-28 18:54:28
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zOUZDyusDtvNBYFuVEEAy6CvwoGG0_hsnF03tY=ixcJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I was thinking of the more generic case. The problem with 'new' in the
>> > above bug
>> > is that it is a reserved word and the list of reserved words recognized
>> > by
> pg_dump changed in 9.0 or 9.1(?). If the table definitions you showed
>> > are correct
>> > you have sequence columns named id. id is in the list of reserved words
>> > also:
>> >
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-keywords-appendix.html
>>
>> hm -- if sequences named 'id' are not dumping properly, I'd call that
>> a pretty significant bug.
>
>
>
> Well just tested using 9.1.1 pg_dump to dump an 8.4.9 database with table:
> CREATE TABLE id_test (
>     id integer NOT NULL,
>     fld_1 text
> );
>
> Everything worked including:
>
> SELECT pg_catalog.setval('id_test_id_seq', 5, true)
>
> which represents the correct sequence value.
>
> So something else is going on.

yeah -- I was just about to report same. I also renamed the sequence
itself to 'id' with no issues. this was on 9.1.0.

merlin

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