Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> In 8.2 and up you can use ALTER SEQUENCE ... OWNED BY ... to establish a
>> link that will make a manually created sequence go away when its "owner"
>> column is dropped. In 8.1 that aspect of SERIAL is hidden magic :-(
> Really no way to recognize with pg_* or information_schema.* ? I can't
> believe this, but i don't know a way...
Well, ALTER OWNED BY works by adding or removing a pg_depend entry, and
if you wanted to get down and dirty you could do that manually in
earlier releases. I wouldn't recommend it though ...
regards, tom lane
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