Marc Mamin <M.Mamin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, I undersand that serial is just a hint at table creation time, but is there a place in catalog where we can see if the table was created using 'serial' ? No. Where the docs say "these are equivalent", they mean that very literally. > The difference we see between the source and target database is that a schema prefix is displayed with the sequence on one side, and not on the other.. This likely has to do with the search_path settings being different in the sessions inspecting the two DBs. I do not think it is related to serial-ness at all, it's just the normal behavior of regclass_out for the OID constant that's the argument of nextval(). regards, tom lane
