Re: select from sequences - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: select from sequences
Date
Msg-id 22697.1171257768@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: select from sequences  ("Jaime Casanova" <systemguards@gmail.com>)
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"Jaime Casanova" <systemguards@gmail.com> writes:
> and why is this a feature? i mean, what real use it has?

To find out the parameters of an existing sequence.  Remove it and
you'll break pg_dump, to say nothing of any other application.
        regards, tom lane


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