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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Uwe Maiwald <u.maiwald@kiss-net.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: get sequence name from table name
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:24:34 -0300
Message-ID: <20091204192434.GF4705@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B193E8E.6010603@kiss-net.de>
References: <4B193E8E.6010603@kiss-net.de>

Uwe Maiwald wrote:
> how to get the name of the sequence that is responsible for setting
> the autoincrement value of a tables primary key column?

You can use the pg_get_serial_sequence() function.  You need the name of
the column in addition to the table name though.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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