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Hi,
I have to go to the well and ask you guys how in the he_l I can determine the
sequence name if I only have the schema name (normally 'public'), the table
name, and the field name (normally the PK). Below is the current SQL I'm
using but it does not account for field data types that are not 'serial'.
IOW if the sequence name I'm looking for is not associated with a field which
has 'serial' for a data type it does not find the sequence name.

From a python script
"""SELECT seq.relname::text
FROM pg_class src, pg_class seq, pg_namespace, pg_attribute,
pg_depend
WHERE
pg_depend.refobjsubid = pg_attribute.attnum AND
pg_depend.refobjid = src.oid AND
seq.oid = pg_depend.objid AND
src.relnamespace = pg_namespace.oid AND
pg_attribute.attrelid = src.oid AND
pg_namespace.nspname = '%s' AND
src.relname = '%s' AND
pg_attribute.attname = '%s'""" %
(localSchemaName,localTableName,cursor.KeyField)

Thanks in advance for any help you may provide!
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johnf wrote:

> I have to go to the well and ask you guys how in the he_l I can determine the
> sequence name if I only have the schema name (normally 'public'), the table
> name, and the field name (normally the PK).

pg_get_serial_sequence()

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On Thursday 10 January 2008 06:12:43 am Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> pg_get_serial_sequence

But it only works with a serial data type.

Create a sequence "mySequence"
Create a field "myField smallint NOT NULL DEFAULT
nextval('mysequence'::regclass)"

So given the name of the table and the name of the field. How can I find the
name of the associated squence?



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