At 11:22 AM 5/05/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>But the proposed "nicer interface" *introduces* a bug, namely the
>inability to preserve is_called, which is exactly the pg_dump bug
>that 3-parameter setval was invented to fix.
No, I don't want to remove the setval functions from general sequences. I
just want to use existing restrictions on the SERIAL data type: by
definition they start at 0, increase by 1, and are intX. We can ignore the
current is_called flag and set the min value or is_called flag in such a
way as to get the desired next value.
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