Normally I'd agree, but I've found a few people who use normal sequence operations with serial sequences. That is, they track down the name and use it.
I'd prefer to force these people to make it manually, but would be surprised if that was a concensus. -- Rod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rod Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Hackers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Making serial survive pg_dump > "Rod Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok, keeping the setval is appropriate. Are there any problems with a > > SERIAL(<sequence name>) implementation? > > What for? The sequence name is an implementation detail, not something > we want to expose (much less let users modify). > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
