Re: PostgreSQL 9.1 pg_dump setval() sets wrong value - Mailing list pgsql-general

Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> writes:
> My pg_dump backups from before 9.1.1 were correct, now they are not:

> diff backup_20111212031701.sql backup_20111223013539.sql | grep setval
> | grep state_id

> < SELECT pg_catalog.setval('cp_state_id_seq', 52, true);
> > SELECT pg_catalog.setval('cp_state_id_seq', 1, false);

These "grep" calls are showing just exactly not enough to prove
anything.  I remain unclear as to what state is actually in the
database, or what is being dumped, but I suspect at this point that you
may have multiple sequences of the same names in different schemas.

            regards, tom lane