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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump
Date
Msg-id 200602081403.k18E3sA04436@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
Responses Re: Sequences/defaults and pg_dump
List pgsql-general
Joachim Wieland wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:49:02AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 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
>
> This should go along with another command like
>
> ... ALTER COLUMN DROP SERIAL
>
> which drops the serial and removes the dependencies to get rid of it in a
> clean way, right?

Uh, you can drop a column or change its data type, but not drop the data
type of a column.

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