> CREATE TABLE books ( > id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, > > Which has the advantage of not having to manually create the sequences. Will > this also enforce that the "internally created sequence" will be initialized > to a value above the maximum key in use on a pg_restore?
I think you will still run into the same issue if your sequence is not getting the proper value as max(id) or max(id) +1, not sure which is actually needed. You may get some benefits from using IDENTITY rather than the pseudo-type of serial, as described in this blog post-
