Re: Bug with rename bigserial column

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>

From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: "D. Dante Lorenso" <dante@lorenso.com>, "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-01-12T09:55:44Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Sunday 11 January 2004 13:14, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 January 2004 21:31, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
> > > I just ran into a dump/restore problem with a bigserial column
> > > on a renamed table.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I've corrected the problem manually, but it does seem like a bug
> > > somewhere.
> >
> > Sounds like a bug. You might want to have a look and see if it's
> > restoring the value of the old or new sequence.

> I think previous discussions on this couldn't decide between not renaming
> the underlying sequence and the one where the sequence is also renamed when
> the table is.
>
> Of course in this instance it's slightly different in that it does sound
> like a bug of the dump/restore process with the not renaming sequence
> behaviour employed.

Yep - it sounds like the column definition is doing one thing, while the 
sequence definition is doing the other.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd