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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: BUG #17008: pg_dump doesn't dump a sequence with bigint type
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Hmm, I think --exclude-tables should exclude tables only, not sequences.
> And it does behave like that for me, in a quick test with version 10.

Probably your original thought is right: the sequence isn't properly owned
by the table column, so it doesn't get dumped in a selective dump.

			regards, tom lane