Re: How to drop sequence? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron St-Pierre
Subject Re: How to drop sequence?
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Msg-id 40435C84.4010401@syscor.com
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In response to How to drop sequence?  ("Igor Kryltsov" <kryltsov@yahoo.com>)
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Igor Kryltsov wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have table:
>
>
># \d category;
>  category_id   | integer                | not null default
>nextval('public.category_category_id_seq'::text)
> category_name | character varying(100) | not null
>Indexes: category_pkey primary key btree (category_id)
>
>My goal is to remove sequence from category_id column and remove it after
>from DB.
>
>First I tried:
>
>DROP SEQUENCE  category_category_id_seq - fails saying that table category
>column category_id uses it
>
>Than I tried:
>
>ALTER TABLE category ALTER COLUMN category_id DROP DEFAULT;
>
>Now category_id column is shown as integer not null only but :
>
>DROP SEQUENCE  category_category_id_seq - fails saying that table category
>column category_id uses it again
>
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thank you,
>
>
>Igor
>
>
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Try

DROP SEQUENCE category_category_id_seq CASCADE;

Ron



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