Re: Relationship beween sequences (serial) and tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Relationship beween sequences (serial) and tables
Date
Msg-id 20050909172801.GG7630@pervasive.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Relationship beween sequences (serial) and tables  (Thusitha Kodikara <kthusi@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:03:26AM -0700, Thusitha Kodikara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Postgres 7.4.5 on Linux
>
> In many of my tables the primary key is bigserial for which sequences are automatcially generated. Through pg_catalog
tableshow can I find the relationship petween each table and its corresponding sequence ? 

If you install newsysviews (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/),
the following query will give you all table columns that are using a
sequence for their default value:

select * from pg_user_table_columns where default_value like 'nextval(%';
--
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461

pgsql-admin by date:

Previous
From: "Kevin Keith"
Date:
Subject: Disabling WAL for bulk data loads
Next
From: "Jim C. Nasby"
Date:
Subject: Re: Disabling WAL for bulk data loads