Re: [SQL] Setting Next Value in Sequence

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: "Tim Perdue" <perdue(at)raccoon(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Setting Next Value in Sequence
Date: 1999-03-16 13:23:52
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At 15:06 +0200 on 16/3/99, Tim Perdue wrote:

> May table is defined to use the sequence, and the table is not trivial to
> export and rebuild with the new sequence.
>
> There's got to be some way around this. I'm probably going to have to create
> a bogus table using that sequence, then insert 150,000 bogus records to
> increment the sequence. Then drop the table.

What? You just need to drop and create a sequence with the same name. At
least it works for me (though I noticed that unprivileged users have
problems creating tables without having the sequences created first, which
IMHO is a bug. But I don't think it applies to already-created tables).

Herouth

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