On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:48:41PM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 10/22/19 10:48 AM, stan wrote: > Please reply to list also: > Ccing list. > > > > > > Sorry if my description was not clear. > > > > No, we do not mix test, and production data. Let me try to clarify the > > question. Looking at a pg_dump, I see the following: > > > > > > CREATE SEQUENCE public.customer_key_serial > > START WITH 1 > > INCREMENT BY 1 > > NO MINVALUE > > NO MAXVALUE > > CACHE 1; > > > > > > Yet, in the same pg_dump file I have: > > > > > > > > > > COPY public.customer (customer_key, cust_no, name, c_type, location, > > bill_address_1, bill_address_2, bill_city, bill_state, bill_zip, > > bill_country, bill_attention, bill_addressee, ship_address_1, > > ship_address_2, ship_addressee, ship_attention, ship_city, ship_state, > > ship_zip, office_phone_area_code, office_phone_exchange, > > office_phone_number, office_phone_extension, cell_phone_area_code, > > cell_phone_exchange, cell_phone_number, ship_phone_area_code, > > ship_phone_exchange, ship_phone_number, ship_phone_extension, > > fax_phone_area_code, fax_phone_exchange, fax_phone_number, status, modtime) > > FROM stdin; > > 1 12 Made Up Inc. INDUSTRIAL_CONVEYOR \N 101 Nowhere > > Ave. \N LaGrange GA 00000 \N \N \N > > \N \N \N \N \N \N 00000 \N \N \N > > \N \N \N \N \N \N \N \N \N > > \N \N ACTIVE 2019-09-30 23:55:04.594203+00 > > 2 5 Jimmys Favorite Customer. PLASTICS \N > > 56 Somewhere St. \N No Such City SC 00000 \N > > \N \N \N \N \N \N \N \N 00000 > > \N \N \N \N \N \N \N \N \N > > \N \N \N \N \N ACTIVE 2019-09-30 > > 23:55:04.636827+00 > > > > So it appears to me the customer table is going to get (correctly) populated > > with the originally generated keys, yet the sequence will want to return a 1 > > the next time it is called, when a new customer gets inserted. > > > > Am I missing something here? > > > > Yes something like this, in dump file, for non-serial sequence: > > CREATE SEQUENCE public.plant1_p_item_no_seq > START WITH 1 > INCREMENT BY 1 > NO MINVALUE > NO MAXVALUE > CACHE 1; > > SELECT pg_catalog.setval('public.plant1_p_item_no_seq', 5509, true); > > or for serial sequence: > > CREATE SEQUENCE public.avail_headers_line_id_seq > AS integer > START WITH 1 > INCREMENT BY 1 > NO MINVALUE > NO MAXVALUE > CACHE 1; > > ALTER TABLE ONLY public.avail_headers ALTER COLUMN line_id SET DEFAULT > nextval('public.avail_headers_line_id_seq'::regclass); > > > SELECT pg_catalog.setval('public.avail_headers_line_id_seq', 53, true); > > If you want to see how things are run on a higher level do something like: > > pg_dump -Fc -d some_db -f db.out > > pg_restore -l db_out > db_toc.txt > > -l on pg_restore creates a TOC(table of contents) showing the ordering of > the schema recreation. > Oh, excellent.!! Thanks for the patience to teach me about this. Does make me wonder what the vendor did to create our issue on their database. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin