Re: alter sequence + subqueries

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:36:48PM -0400, jeff sacksteder wrote:
> The postgres-specific sql extension 'ALTER SEQUENCE' does not appear to
> support subqueries.
>
> I have inserted some data into a table, including values in the primary key.
> I want to reset the associated sequence so that any further records to be
> inserted into that table resume numbering correctly. The statement I
> attempted was:
>
> ALTER SEQUENCE foo_id_seq
> RESTART WITH (SELECT max(id) FROM foo);
>
> Is this syntax correct and supported?

No, but you could call the setval() function instead ...

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