Re: pg_dump and DEFAULT column values

> pg_dump has a hard time with circular dependencies :-(

but on the plus side, pg_dump is really fast!  much faster than dump
utilities of other databases I've seen.
 
> Have you considered using a sequence, rather than generating 
> new values
> as shown above?  The approach you are using is extremely fragile:
> consider what happens if two backends try to insert at the same time.

a sequence it is!  thanks.

eric