Ewe. There would no longer be a guaranteed name for the serial column sequence. Of course, pg_depend has the information, but how do you get at that when you create the dump file, and be _sure_ you are going to hit the right name, especially if you restore only part of the dump.
Seems this kills the idea of this patch. With 64-byte names, let's see if we still get complaints about name conflicts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > OK, > > I have discovered a problem with my auto-naming patch. It's do to with > dumping serial columns with pg_dump, eg: > > -- > -- TOC entry 2 (OID 1004551) > -- Name: users_users; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: chriskl > -- > > CREATE TABLE users_users ( > userid serial NOT NULL, > firstname character varying(255) NOT NULL, > lastname character varying(255) NOT NULL, > email character varying(255) NOT NULL > ); > > -- DATA DUMPED HERE > > -- > -- TOC entry 4 (OID 1004305) > -- Name: users_users_userid_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: public; Owner: > chriskl > -- > > SELECT pg_catalog.setval ('users_users_userid_seq', 126, true); > > > How do we fix this problem?? Perhaps instead of a hard-coded sequence > string, we can sub-SELECT for it...? > > Chris > > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]