Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>It is not pilot error if PostgreSQL allows it. There is
>>nothing "illegal" about the above commands in their execution.
>>The pg_dump application should recognize that the object has
>>changed and react accordingly.
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>ISTM this is a bug, but it's not clear to me what is the solution.
>I can think of two:
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>1. Changing the default is forbidden
>2. When the default is changed, the dependency on the sequence is
>dropped, and the sequence itself is dropped.
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3. When the default is changed, the dependency is updated
to reflect the new sequence. The old sequence is left intact
as an independent object.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>Which one do you think is best? Why? (I'd say "less bad" instead of
>"best", but I'm not sure if that's a correct choice of words.)
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