On sön, 2010-09-19 at 14:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> What about inventing a function to extract a sequence's parameters?
> Perhaps something like
>
> pg_sequence_parameter(seq regclass, colname text) returns
> bigint
>
> which would do an appropriate permissions check and then fetch the
> named column. (This could actually be implemented in a line or two in
> plpgsql, but I think we want it in C because information_schema
> shouldn't depend on plpgsql.)
Why shouldn't it?
