Re: pg_dump future problem.

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I see an obvious problem in the way pg_dump dumps serials.  At the moment,
> we have length 64 identifiers.  If someone has a 64 character table name
> and adds a serial to it, it will get a truncated sequence name, with _seq
> o the end.
> However, if we up 7.4, say, to use 128 character identifiers, then this
> restore will fail, as the sequence name will NOT be truncated and the
> setval() call will fail.

<yawn> ... AFAIR, we have heard no reports of such problems with the
32-to-64 name conversion.  The odds of problems with a (hypothetical)
future increase to 128 would be far less.

I think we have more immediate problems to worry about.
        regards, tom lane