Re: pg_get_serial_sequence is inconsistent

[Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>]

> pg_get_serial_sequence() does dequoting/downcasing on its relation-name
> argument, but not on its column-name argument.
>
> regression=# create table "FOO" ("Ff1" serial);
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "FOO_Ff1_seq" for serial column "FOO.Ff1"
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# select pg_get_serial_sequence('FOO','Ff1');
> ERROR:  column "Ff1" of relation "foo" does not exist
> regression=# select pg_get_serial_sequence('"FOO"','Ff1');
>  pg_get_serial_sequence 
> ------------------------
>  public."FOO_Ff1_seq"
> (1 row)

I presume the reason for that is that the first paramater can be qualified:

select pg_get_serial_sequence('"public"."FOO"', 'Ff1');

Chris