I am trying to track down a method of determining what a sequence name is for a SERIAL is in postgresql.
For example,
CREATE TABLE foo (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, bar TEXT);
\d foo
Table "public.foo"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------
id | integer | not null default nextval('public.foo_id_seq'::text)
bar | text |
Indexes:
"foo_pkey" primary key, btree (id)
Now, I have figured out how to get a list of all the sequences with:
foo=> SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relkind='S' AND relname !~ '^pg_';
relname
------------
foo_id_seq
(1 row)
I can find public.foo in pg_tables, but I am not sure how to relate pg_tables and
pg_class in order to find the sequence for a specific field in public.foo.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am trying to get out of the habit of
hard-coding the sequence names in my code.
Now that I think of it, I am lacking 'public.' as well from my query.
Ok, so how would I go about getting the sequence name for a SERIAL field on any given
schema.table? I would like to build a function that would return this value if I pass
it the schema and table (and fieldname is necessary)
Thanks,
Robby
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