"Garris, Nicole" <Nicole.Garris@dof.ca.gov> writes:
> I am running PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on Max OS X. Rather than using the serial data
> type for a table's primary key, we use integer and default it to the nexval
> of a sequence with the name of <tablename>_seq (this syntax seems to work
> best with Apple's WebObjects Enterprise Object Modeler). Therefore, the
> table depends on the sequence, and in a reload of the database, the sequence
> must be created first. However, pg_dump lists the "create sequence" after
> the "create table". Of course I cannot use the pg_dump file as-is to reload
> the database, it fails on the "create table" statement when referencing the
> (as-yet) non-existent sequence.
How so? The nextval only references the sequence as a string; it's not
going to trigger any failure at create time. Please show a specific
test case instead of assuming you know what the problem is.
regards, tom lane
