On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, at 20:19, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Hi hackers, > > I've always been annoyed by the fact that pg_get_serial_sequence takes > the table and returns the sequence as strings rather than regclass. And > since identity columns were added, the name is misleading as well (which > is even acknowledged in the docs, together with a suggestion for a > better name). > > So, instead of making excuses in the documentation, I thought why not > add a new function which addresses all of these issues, and document the > old one as a backward-compatibilty wrapper? > > Please see the attached patch for my stab at this.
This didn't get any replies, so I've created a commitfest entry to make sure it doesn't get lost: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/44/4535/ -- - ilmari
