Re: Range of Serial values

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Poul L(dot) Christiansen" <poulc(at)cs(dot)auc(dot)dk>
Cc: cbell <cbell(at)lighthouseasp(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Range of Serial values
Date: 2001-04-16 15:42:01
Message-ID: 3ADB12C9.D07A3D7B@postgresql.org
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Hi,

I believe you could also create the sequence, then update it with
setval('<sequence name>', <number>);

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote:
>
> Yes, there is.
>
> When you create a serial column a sequence is created, which does the
> counting.
>
> You can create a serial column, drop the associated sequence and create
> a new one with the command:
> "CREATE SEQUENCE seqname START 1000".
>
> See also "\h CREATE SEQUENCE".
>
> HTH,
> Poul L. Christansen
>
> cbell wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > when creating a serial column, is there a way to specify which number it
> > will start counting from? For example, if you wanted all Serial ID's to
> > start at 1000 and count up from there, with no numbers below that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris.
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