Marc Mamin <m.ma...@intershop.de> writes:
> Yes, I undersand that serial is just a hint at table creation time, but is
> there a place in catalog where we can see if the table was created using
> 'serial' ?
No. Where the docs say "these are equivalent", they mean that very
literally.
> The difference we see between the source and target database is that a schema
> prefix is displayed with the sequence on one side, and not on the other..
This likely has to do with the search_path settings being different in the
sessions inspecting the two DBs. I do not think it is related to
serial-ness at all, it's just the normal behavior of regclass_out for the
OID constant that's the argument of nextval().
regards, tom lane
