From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Guillaume 'ioguix' de Rorthais" <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #3619: Renaming sequence does not update its 'sequence_name' field |
Date: | 2007-10-08 18:01:30 |
Message-ID: | 200710081801.l98I1Uf28378@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > Well, the way it is now is just broken, so IMO we have to either fix it
> > or remove it altogether.
>
> > Since having sequence_name in there doesn't let you do anything you
> > can't do without it, and there's no easy way to fix it, I'd say let's
> > just remove it in 8.3 and do nothing in backbranches.
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. It's removing functionality that
> works fine as long as you don't rename sequences. Also, there's still
> the notion of someday providing a system catalog or view that shows
> parameters of all sequences, and in that view the current column set of
> an individual sequence would be what we'd want.
>
> My inclination is to leave it alone for now until we have an approach to
> providing that view, and at that time decide what to do about individual
> sequences. If we have to change the API, then so be it, but lets do it
> just once not twice.
Added to TODO:
o Have ALTER SEQUENCE RENAME rename the sequence name stored
in the sequence table
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-09/msg00092.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00007.php
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