Here is an attempt at adding a new function that returns the sequence tuple
and using that to avoid querying each sequence relation individually in
dumpSequenceData().
If we instead wanted to change pg_sequence_last_value() to return both
is_called and last_value, I think we could modify the pg_sequences system
view to use a LATERAL subquery, i.e.,
SELECT
...
CASE
WHEN L.is_called THEN L.last_value
ELSE NULL
END AS last_value
FROM pg_sequence S
...
JOIN LATERAL pg_sequence_last_value(S.seqrelid) L ON true
...
That doesn't seem so bad, and it'd avoid an extra pg_proc entry, but it
would probably break anything that calls pg_sequence_last_value() directly.
Thoughts?
--
nathan
