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Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)

by fernando@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fernando Schapachnik) May 13, 2008 at 09:50 AM

En un mensaje anterior, Merlin Moncure escribió:
[...]
> >> > Am I doing something wrong?
> >>
> >> yes and no  when you created the table initially you probably made it
> >> a 'serial' column which set up the owner****p that prevents the drop
> >> operation.  that owner****p did not go away when you altered the
> >> default to the new serial.
> >>
> >> to fix this,
> >> alter sequence sequence table1_id_seq owned by none; -- now you can
drop
> >
> > Hi, Merlin. Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work. Every variation
> > of this syntax I tried gives me error as, apparently, it should:
> >
> > \h ALTER SEQUENCE
> > Command:     ALTER SEQUENCE
> > Description: change the definition of a sequence generator
> > Syntax:
> > ALTER SEQUENCE name [ INCREMENT [ BY ] increment ]
> >    [ MINVALUE minvalue | NO MINVALUE ] [ MAXVALUE maxvalue | NO
> > MAXVALUE ]
> >    [ RESTART [ WITH ] start ] [ CACHE cache ] [ [ NO ] CYCLE ]
> 
> oop, you are using 8.1 :-).  This was added in a later version.  drop
> sequence ... cascade should probably work.  you can try it out in a
> transaction to be sure.

Thanks for your help, but cascade doesn't make a difference.

Fernando.

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Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
fschapachnik@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-08 08:52:07 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
mmoncure@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-09 08:45:19 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
fernando@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-09 09:55:02 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
mmoncure@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-09 09:48:07 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
fernando@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-13 09:50:27 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
mmoncure@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-13 11:26:52 
Re: Is this a bug? (changing sequences in default value)
fernando@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-13 13:16:03 

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