Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL
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Msg-id 200911120900.58400.guillaume@lelarge.info
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE LIKE and SERIAL
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Le dimanche 1 novembre 2009 à 13:24:10, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 23:48:45, Tom Lane a écrit :
> >> Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > How is pgAdmin determining the serial type in this case?
> >>
> >> Most likely it's looking for the pg_depend entry that shows the sequence
> >> as being "owned by" the column.  However, that's an oversimplification
> >> of reality.  I would imagine that pgAdmin will lie to you in exactly
> >> the same cases that used to break pg_dump (notably, where someone has
> >> manually adjusted either the default expression or the sequence...)
> >
> > I've just read this. I wasn't aware of this. Should we suppress this
> > behavior of pgAdmin?
>
> Do you have a proposed fix? I suspect people won't want us to stop
> showing columns as 'SERIAL' when they actually were created that way.
>

Other ideas than doing what pg_dump does? I'm afraid not.


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