On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We have pg_get_serial_sequence() mapping (relation, colum) to the
> sequence. What I'm missing right now is the inverse. I.e. given a
> sequence tell me the owner.
> describe.c has a query for that, and it's not too hard to write, but it
> still seems 'unfriendly' not to provide it.
>
> Does anybody dislike adding a function for that?

I'll go out on a limb and say that it sounds like pointless catalog
bloat to me.  I am all in favor of adding things like this where the
SQL query is painful to write (e.g. things involving pg_depend) but if
it's a simple SELECT query then, eh, not really excited about it.

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Robert Haas
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