Re: detecting serials in 8.1

Kris Jurka wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>> It's _always_ fine, because GetSchema obeys the search path and the
>> reengineered SQL is meant to be used in a search path situation as it
>> was at the time of reengineering. There are plenty of other
>> situations where the reduced form (omitting search-pathed schema)
>> won't work.
>>
>
> Let me back up and make clear what I'm saying.  The code I originally
> submitted is not correct.  The code you committed is not correct
> either.  To correctly determine what the default value for a serial
> will look like, you need to know what the search_path was at table
> creation time.  Knowing its current value is not relevent.
>
> Run the following in psql.
>
> SET search_path TO public;
> CREATE schema s1;
> CREATE TABLE s1.t1(a serial);
> SET search_path TO s1;
> CREATE TABLE s1.t2(a serial);
> \d t1
> \d t2
>
> Note how one default includes the schema and the other doesn't.
> Explain how pgadmin can correctly determine the default value for both
> of these tables.
The problem of non-standard serials using pg_depend is on the TODO-list.
AFAICS the current implementation is better than before, and I don't
think adding more brains to this inferiour pattern matching approach
wouldn't make things better.

Regards,
Andreas