Re: [GENERAL] Adding 'serial' to existing column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From rob stone
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Adding 'serial' to existing column
Date
Msg-id 1509743223.13050.10.camel@gmail.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Adding 'serial' to existing column  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 16:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Lakes <robertl@propaas.com> writes:
> > I am new to Postgres and I am trying to build this SQL statement in
> > my SQL
> > script:
> > ALTER TABLE listings_cdc ALTER COLUMN table_id SET DEFAULT
> > nextval('tab_id_seq');
> 
> That looks correct, but this not so much:
> 
> > I am trying to build the above-stated command as a dynamic SQL
> > statement:
> >  EXECUTE 'ALTER TABLE listings_cdc ALTER COLUMN table_id SET
> > DEFAULT
> > nextval('||quote_ident(tab_id_seq)||')';
> > I've received an error when running the script this above-stated
> > command:
> >  ERROR:  column "tab_id_seq" does not exist
> > LINE 1: ...OLUMN table_id SET DEFAULT
> > nextval('||quote_ident(tab_id_seq...
> 
> You want quote_literal, not quote_ident, because you're trying to
> produce
> a single-quoted literal.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> 

You could also do:-

ALTER SEQUENCE tab_id_seq OWNED BY listings_cdc.table_id;

which would establish the one-to-one relationship between the table and
its sequence for that column.

My 2 cents worth.

HTH,
Rob


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