Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch for sequence-renaming problems

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:41:12PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Also, why is the nextval ::text casting output by pg_dump anyway?
> 
> AFAICS, pg_dump outputs "serial" (at least in 7.4.7 which is what I
> have to hand) when it should meaning that dumps restored will get the
> new syntax anyway. Or am I missing something?
> 
> Isn't this what adddepend was for? I can beleive there are version
> dependancies here...

Right, we think we can get SERIAL to work fine.  It is manual use of
nextval() in DEFAULT that we are worried about, and there is probably
not too much use of that.  There is no dependency info about that.

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