Laurent ROCHE <laurent_roche@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I understand (and I have read) that there have been changes and discussions about the way, pg_dump treats SERIAL columns in the latest versions(8.x). > However, I have not been able to get a document explaining exactly what the changes are and what's the reasoning behind it, not even in the documentation. > Is there such a thing ? See this thread and the earlier ones it refers to: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01250.php The commit message here summarizes the changes: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-08/msg00376.php regards, tom lane