Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tom Lane wrote:
> Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> writes:
> > testseq=# CREATE TABLE test(id SERIAL, data TEXT);
> > NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test_id_seq" for
> > serial column "test.id"
> > CREATE TABLE
> > ***
> > ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('test_id_seq') * 10;
>
> The correct solution to this is to forbid ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT on
> a serial column, but we haven't gotten around to enforcing that yet.

TODO has:

    * %Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column

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