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Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL


  • From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
  • To: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL
  • Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:12:08 +0100
  • Message-id: <200910310012.09092.guillaume@lelarge.info> <text/plain>

Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 23:48:45, Tom Lane a écrit :
> Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > How is pgAdmin determining the serial type in this case?
> 
> Most likely it's looking for the pg_depend entry that shows the sequence
> as being "owned by" the column.  However, that's an oversimplification
> of reality.  I would imagine that pgAdmin will lie to you in exactly
> the same cases that used to break pg_dump (notably, where someone has
> manually adjusted either the default expression or the sequence...)
> 

I've just read this. I wasn't aware of this. Should we suppress this behavior 
of pgAdmin?


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Guillaume.
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