Re: [GENERAL] How to increment by hand a sequence number.

It maybe done with next syntax;
drop sequence_name;
create sequence sequence_name start start_no;

But, if you want to increment the sequence_no by one manually, then;
select nextval('sequence_name');

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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Valerio Santinelli wrote:

> I've exported a table from an existing MSAccess database to my
> PostgreSQL db.
> I use a serial ID on the table and now I'm getting errors when I add a
> new entry in the table if i don't specify the ID by hand (which should
> be placed automatically by the db since it's a serial).
>
> The exact error is this one:
>
> Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index.
>
>
> I think I should set the "last_value" field in the sequence to my real
> last value aon the ID field of the table, but Idon't know how to do it.
> Is there anybody who can help me ?
>
> Thanks