Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator not setting values of sequences? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator not setting values of sequences?
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Msg-id 20090715162308.GI4551@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator not setting values of sequences?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] pg_migrator not setting values of sequences?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> > I think you don't need transfer sequence table, because pg_dump should 
> > create DDL command (CREATE SEQUENCE) which should create new nice 
> > sequence relation.
> 
> Yeah, but pg_dump is doing a schema-only dump so it doesn't transfer the
> current state of the sequence.
> 
> The most effective solution might be to revert the change in pg_migrator
> and instead have pg_dump interpret --binary-upgrade --schema-only to
> include the data for sequences.  It seems ugly as sin though :-(

It seems cleaner to have a pg_dump --dump-all-sequences or some such.

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