Re: REQUEST: option to auto-generate new sequences with CREATE TABLE (LIKE)

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:10:30PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Hi,
> as the subjects reads I searched in the docs a way to instruct postgres
> to create new sequences when copying tables containing serial columns,
> but the resulting  serial fields in the new tables reference the
> original sequence.

That's the right behavior.  You should be using

    pg_get_serial_sequence('your_table','your_column')

to get the sequence name anyhow. :)

Cheers,
David.
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