Re: Switching identity column to serial - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
Subject Re: Switching identity column to serial
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Msg-id 3410451d-667f-b198-0d06-17a998c144b5@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Switching identity column to serial  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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On 2/3/23 22:41, Ron wrote:
> On 2/3/23 18:54, Erik Wienhold wrote:
>> I was wondering if it's possible to drop a column identity (not the column
>> itself) while keeping the attached sequence.  This would avoid recreating
>> an identical sequence (especially with a correct start value and owner).
>
> Why doesn't this work?
> BEGIN;
> DROP SEQUENCE t_id;
> CREATE SEQUENCE new_t_id_seq AS INTEGER OWNED BY t.id;
> ALTER SEQUENCE new_t_id_seq OWNER TO new_owner;
> SELECT setval('new_t_id', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM t));
> SELECT nextval('new_t_id');
> COMMIT;

Note: this was not tested...

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