| From: | Joe Sunday <sunday(at)csh(dot)rit(dot)edu> |
|---|---|
| To: | Alexander Troppmann <talex(at)cocktaildreams(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Maybe a bug found with nextval() function |
| Date: | 2004-02-20 21:51:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20040220215107.GA25768@csh.rit.edu |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:16:42PM +0100, Alexander Troppmann wrote:
> SELECT SETVAL('recipe_id_seq', max(id)) FROM recipe;
>
> returns the following output:
>
> setval
> --------
> 455
> (1 row)
Ok.
> Now I tried to fetch the next free primary key id for my "recipe" table:
>
> SELECT NEXTVAL('recipe_id_seq') FROM receipt;
You're going to get a value for every row in receipt, which is what you're
seeing.
What you want is
SELECT NEXTVAL( 'recipe_id_seq');
--Joe
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Joe Sunday <sunday(at)csh(dot)rit(dot)edu> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~sunday/
Computer Science House, Rochester Inst. Of Technology
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