Re: BUG #5809: bigserial duplicate value

 i relying on PostgreSQL to supply a default value,
i  have application at  hospital and application appear error about duplicate
value.

There was a primary key on this columns but i found error form my application
about duplicate value and can`t insert value then i remove the primary key
constraint to try  to find problem and try again i found bigserial  put
duplicate value on fields .
 

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Mahmoud El Zaiady
Bachelor of Information Systems
Faculty of Computers & Information Sciences
Mansoura University
 
 

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From: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: mahmoud elzaiady <melzaiady(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 6:34:57 PM
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5809: bigserial duplicate value

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:04:17AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 11:40 +0000, mahmoud elzaiady wrote:
> > i ask ,bigserial must not duplicate the value ?
> > how solve this problem
>
> This is probably due to the sequence being reset somehow. Have you
> dumped/reloaded recently? Did you manually back up or copy the table?

Alternatively, perhaps at some point you've added data to that column, rather
than relying on PostgreSQL to supply a default value.

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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
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