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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:01:19 -0400 (EDT)
"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> Message-ID: <00e101c88b84$df1bbca0$9d5335e0$@r@sbcglobal.net>
>
> I am not at all
> clear as to the implications of this statement but it caused me to
> wonder if the primary key values of such tables could be changed
> simply by dumping and reloading the database as in an upgrade between
> versions. Surely this is not the case?
Of course not :). It just has to do with serial being a psuedo type
and thus the actual declaration is just an integer with a default. This
isn't that other database, we don't munge data :P
Joshua D. Drake
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