Re: pg_dump and sequences - RFC

At 10:36 28/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> My inclinations is do do the following:
>
>> - Issue 'CREATE SEQUENCE...Initial Value 1...' in OID order
>> - Issue 'SELECT SETVAL...' at end of data load.
>
>Seems reasonable, except you should not necessarily use 1; that could
>be outside the defined range of the sequence object.  Use its min_value
>instead.

OK. Given the discussion of 'select nextval', do you know if 'select
setval' will set the is_called flag? If not should I:


Issue 'CREATE SEQUENCE...Initial Value <MINVAL>...' in OID order

if (is_called was set AND we've loaded any data) then
   Issue 'SELECT NEXTVAL...' at end of data load, and *before* setval.   Issue 'SELECT SETVAL...' at end of data load.

endif


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