Re: drop table cascade doesn't drop manual sequences

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> schrieb:

> "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 10/10/07, Guilherme <antoniolo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If I insert a sequence later on table creation with alter table, drop
> >> table cascade simply doesn't drop this sequence even when I specify
> >> CASCADE.
>
> > This is normal.
>
> In 8.2 and up you can use ALTER SEQUENCE ... OWNED BY ... to establish a
> link that will make a manually created sequence go away when its "owner"
> column is dropped.  In 8.1 that aspect of SERIAL is hidden magic :-(

Really no way to recognize with pg_* or information_schema.* ? I can't
believe this, but i don't know a way...


Andreas
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