Laurent ROCHE <laurent_roche@yahoo.com> writes:
> I understand (and I have read) that there have been changes and discussions about the way, pg_dump treats SERIAL
columnsin the latest versions(8.x).
> However, I have not been able to get a document explaining exactly what the changes are and what's the reasoning
behindit, not even in the documentation.
> Is there such a thing ?
See this thread and the earlier ones it refers to:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01250.php
The commit message here summarizes the changes:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-08/msg00376.php
regards, tom lane