Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/