Re: pg_dump and sequences (bug ?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: pg_dump and sequences (bug ?)
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Msg-id 4115B123.2010001@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to pg_dump and sequences (bug ?)  (strk <strk@keybit.net>)
Responses Re: pg_dump and sequences (bug ?)  (strk <strk@keybit.net>)
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Also, given this and your previous operator commutator problem, I 
strongly suspect that someone has taken an axe to the system catalogs on 
your installation and they are very screwy.

Chris


strk wrote:

> Using pg_dump from postgresql 7.3.4 I've obtained
> a dump file containing a SEQUENCE SET with no
> corresponding SEQUENCE. I've seen that this is usually
> due to the presence of a table with a 'serial' field,
> but since in this case there is no such table I wonder
> if this is a bug in pg_dump.
> 
> The only reason I can imagine for this is pg_dump taking
> any sequence whose name  ends in _seq as being associated
> to a table, no matter if that table exists and has a 'serial'
> field. Is this possible ? Shouldn't this kind of dependency
> be coded somehow ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> --strk;
> 
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