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Re: OIDs depending data -- how to dump/restore?

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On 14/03/2010 16:21, fkater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> (2)
> If I need to go the long way and replace the OIDs with
> SERIALs first, updating all relations to it etc: Would a
> dump/restore then restore the original values in a SERIAL
> column?

So-called SERIAL types are actually just integer columns which take
nextval('some_sequence') as their DEFAULT, so yes - if you first replace
your OIDs with serials, the values will still be there after a dump/restore.

This is probably the more robust way to go long-term.

Ray.

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