Re: pg_extension_config_dump() function and sequences - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Philippe BEAUDOIN
Subject Re: pg_extension_config_dump() function and sequences
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Msg-id 569E992B.20606@free.fr
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In response to Re: pg_extension_config_dump() function and sequences  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_extension_config_dump() function and sequences  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Le 18/01/2016 07:10, Michael Paquier a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Philippe BEAUDOIN <phb.emaj@free.fr> wrote:
>> The page "Packaging Related Objects into an Extension" has a third chapter
>> dealing with "Extension Configuration Tables". A final paragraph would be
>> useful to explain that:
>>
>> The pg_extension_config_dump() function can also register sequences, so that
>> the current properties of the registered sequences are saved by pg_dump and
>> later restored. The function can support sequences either explicitely
>> created with an ALTER SEQUENCE statement or implicitely created when a table
>> contains SERIAL or BIGSERIAL columns. Note that the sequences associated to
>> SERIAL or BIGSERIAL columns of a configuration table need to be registered
>> using the pg_extension_config_dump() function if one wants to restore the
>> properties they had at pg_dump time.
> Instead of a single paragraph, perhaps we could make things more
> generic like in the attached?
It looks much better, indeed.

Philippe.



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