Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator not setting values of sequences?

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Tilmann Singer wrote:
> I tried the latest pg_migrator
> (http://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/2291/pg_migrator-8.4.tgz) to
> migrate a database from an 8.3.7 to an 8.4.0 cluster. It finished with
> a success message, and the schema and all tables seem to have been
> migrated correctly.
> 
> However, all of the sequences were at the initial values and not
> bumped up to the last used value as I would have expected. The first
> nextval call on any sequence in the migrated 8.4 database always
> returned 1.
> 
> Is this behaviour intended for some reason, or a bug?

[ CC to hackers.]

Wow, that is also surprising.  I am going to have to run some tests to
find the cause, but it certainly is not intended.

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