Re: [PATCHES] system catalog relation of a table and a serial sequence

[2001-12-15 22:26] Rod Taylor said:
|
| > Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> writes:
| > > 1) Is a strcmp(firststrtok,"nextval('") == 0  sufficient to
| determine
| > >    that the adsrc is indeed one that we're looking for?  If not,
| > >    suggestions are greatly appreciated :-)
| >
| > I would not use strtok at all, but look for nextval('" at the start
| > of the string and "'::text) at the end.  If both match, and there's
| > at least one character between, then the intervening text can be
| > presumed to be a sequence name.  You might further check that the
| > apparent sequence name ends with _seq --- if not, it wasn't
| generated
| > by SERIAL.
|
| Wouldn't you want to include user sequences that are required for
| using the table?  If someone has used their own sequence as the
| default value for a column it would be nice to have it dumped as well.

This is my thought as well.  Hopefully Tom will concur.

cheers.
  brent

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