Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Hold, I think I see an idea here. We have two cases, those for SERIAL
> > and those for manual nextval() in DEFAULT. For SERIAL, we can easily
> > map to a nextval(::regclass) call on pg_dump reload. For manual
> > nextval, it will appear in the dump as nextval('myseq'::text), and Tom
> > is saying that will be late binding.
>
> > I think we can live with SERIAL working fine on reload, and requiring
> > users who created a manual default using nextval() to ALTER TABLE
> > DROP/SET DEFAULT to remove the ::text marker if they want early binding.
>
> "Removing the ::text marker" isn't going to work, because if we have
> both nextval(regclass) and nextval(text) then the latter is going to
> capture any cases with an unknown literal.
Why can't we hack up the precedence code to prefer regex for those
function oids?
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