sequence rename?

[ben f]

So I am renaming a table, and the last stumbling block
that I've met is the associated sequence. I tried the
commands suggested @

http://mailman.fastxs.net/pipermail/...st/004307.html

ie:

CREATE SEQUENCE $newseq
SELECT setval('$newseq ', max($column)) FROM $table
ALTER TABLE $table ALTER COLUMN $column SET DEFAULT
nextval('$newse q'::text)
DROP SEQUENCE $oldseq

but when trying to perform the DROP SEQUENCE (psql), i
get a message like:

ERROR: Cannot drop sequence $oldseq because table
$table column $column requires it
You may drop table $table column $column instead
After that, I tried the query suggested here:

http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/...OVINGASEQUENCE
(example 7-34)

And it came back empty.

What am I doing wrong? when i \d $table, it shows no
such dependency. Is there another way to pull this
off?

thanks

ben

ps -- please cc responses directly to me, since i'm
not a subscriber.

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[Alvaro Herrera]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:17:38PM -0700, ben f wrote:

So I am renaming a table, and the last stumbling block
that I've met is the associated sequence. I tried the
commands suggested @

http://mailman.fastxs.net/pipermail/...st/004307.html

ie:

CREATE SEQUENCE $newseq
SELECT setval('$newseq ', max($column)) FROM $table
ALTER TABLE $table ALTER COLUMN $column SET DEFAULT
nextval('$newse q'::text)
DROP SEQUENCE $oldseq

How about

ALTER TABLE $oldseq RENAME TO $newseq;

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