Re: pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Morus Walter
Subject Re: pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N
Date
Msg-id 1156148329.7339.319.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: pg_dump versus SERIAL, round N  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 16:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > The only complaint I can see is that someone
> > who wants pg_dump to dump out SERIAL so it appears just as he created
> > the table, doesn't get that.  Could we have pg_dump do that if the
> > sequences all match the creation (weren't modified)?
> 
> pg_dump's output is often very far from what you typed in anyway.
> My response to that person would be "get a life" ...
> 
As the one who brought up the issue (again) I'd like to add that the
suggested solution sounds good to me.

Thanks a lot for your great work on postgres. You rock!

Morus




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