On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:51:05PM -0600, Ed L. wrote:
>
> But I didn't understand why you care to get rid of the explicit reference to
> the sequence object in your code in the first place. In PostgreSQL, at
> least for the past 5 years if not longer, if you create a SERIAL column for
> (schemaname, tablename, columnname), then your sequence will *always* be
> "schemaname.tablename_columnname_seq".
Only for certain values of "always." Tables and columns can be renamed,
so the sequence name might no longer be "tablename_columnname_seq",
but rather "oldtablename_oldcolumnname_seq".
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
