On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> I'm currently looking into a problem that a client is reporting that
>> pg_dump from 8.0.3 is 'skipping' one of their sequences ... I'm waiting
>> for more info, but am curious if anyone knows (or can think of?) any
>> reason why this might happen? The only thing I can think of is that the
>> sequence is owned by someone other then who the database is being dump'd
>> as, and has no permissions to 'read' it ... but anything I'm not thinking
>> of?
>
> AFAIK, a permissions problem would result in a pretty obvious error
> message from pg_dump ... though it's certainly possible for someone
> to ignore that, especially if they are running pg_dump noninteractively.
>
> Skipping in what sense --- no DDL, no setval, both? Is this a
> separately created sequence or a SERIAL sequence?
This is what I'm still looking to find out ... all I got was "the sequence
isn't being recreated in the dump", and when I message the client back, I
get a vacation message, so obviously it wasn't a critical bug for them
*roll eyes*
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