Re: view table pkey values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Frankel
Subject Re: view table pkey values
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Msg-id 4B2297E4-069A-4AD2-9D33-4BC65B93096B@pacbell.net
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In response to Re: view table pkey values  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Got it!  Yes, this started happening after loading from a pg_dump.
Thanks for the explanation!
Scott



On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Scott Frankel <leknarf@pacbell.net> writes:
>> Is there a command that lists the values for the internal,
>> foo_foo_id_seq, sequence?
>
> select * from foo_foo_id_seq;
>
> The usual way to get into this sort of trouble is to load a bunch of
> data into the table while explicitly specifying ID values.  It will
> take the data (as long as it doesn't conflict with existing IDs)
> but nothing happens to the sequence.  pg_dump knows it has to update
> the sequence too, but a lot of other tools don't; and even with
> pg_dump
> a selective restore can mess things up.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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