Re: sequences and pg_upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 9/14/16 8:52 AM, Anastasia Lubennikova wrote:
> Could you clarify, please, why do we dump sequence in schemaOnly mode?
> +    if (dopt.schemaOnly && dopt.sequence_data)
> +        getSequenceData(&dopt, tblinfo, numTables, dopt.oids);

The point of this patch is that with the new option, you can dump
sequence data (but not table data) alongside with the schema.  This
would be used by pg_upgrade for the reasons described at the beginning
of the thread.

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