Re: ALTER SEQUENCE: Missing feature? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER SEQUENCE: Missing feature?
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Msg-id 1259.1075665198@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ALTER SEQUENCE: Missing feature?  (david@fetter.org (David Fetter))
Responses Re: ALTER SEQUENCE: Missing feature?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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david@fetter.org (David Fetter) writes:
> The fine folks in #postgresql brought this up, and it seems like,
> well, a bug.  In order to make certain kinds of changes on a SEQUENCE,
> you have to issue an ALTER TABLE statement.  Shouldn't alterations
> like RENAME TO, OWNER, etc. to a SEQUENCE all (be able to) go through
> ALTER SEQUENCE?  What else might this impact?

Sequences are tables in some very real senses.  I don't see the value in
duplicating code just to allow people to spell TABLE as SEQUENCE in
these commands...
        regards, tom lane


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