Re: bug in setval?

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug in setval?
Date: 2003-03-13 09:48:24
Message-ID: 50057.80.177.99.193.1047548904.squirrel@ssl.vale-housing.co.uk
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It's rumoured that Christopher Kings-Lynne once said:
> When I create a new table with a serial column, the first row defaults
> to inserting '1'.
>
> If I delete all the rows from the table and want to reset the sequence,
> I can't:
>
> ERROR: users_health_types_type_id_seq.setval: value 0 is out of bounds
> (1,9223372036854775807)
>
> How do I set the sequence to have next value = 1? Surely the bounds
> should begin at zero?

That's bugged me for ages as well. I just never got round to asking about
it...
Regards, Dave.

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