Re: sequence rename? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: sequence rename?
Date
Msg-id 20041003151832.GA4800@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to sequence rename?  (ben f <benomatic42@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:17:38PM -0700, ben f wrote:
> So I am renaming a table, and the last stumbling block
> that I've met is the associated sequence.  I tried the
> commands suggested @
>
> http://mailman.fastxs.net/pipermail/dbmail-dev/2004-August/004307.html
>
> ie:
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE $newseq
> SELECT setval('$newseq', max($column)) FROM $table
> ALTER TABLE $table ALTER COLUMN $column SET DEFAULT
> nextval('$newseq'::text)
> DROP SEQUENCE $oldseq

How about

ALTER TABLE $oldseq RENAME TO $newseq;

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Y eso te lo doy firmado con mis lágrimas" (Fiebre del Loco)


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