Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
> OK. Given the discussion of 'select nextval', do you know if 'select
> setval' will set the is_called flag?
Looks like it does, both by experiment and by reading the code.
So if you issue a setval() you don't need a nextval() as well.
However you still have the problem that you can't recreate the
state of a virgin (never-nextval'd) sequence this way. The
existing pg_dump code is correct, in that it will reproduce the
state of a sequence whether virgin or not. A data-only reload
would fail to make that guarantee unless you drop and recreate
the sequence.
regards, tom lane