Re: setval('myfunsequence', 0)

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Ian Harding wrote:

> The subject statement does not work for automagically generated sequences (minvalue is 1 by default, it seems.) I need to reset a sequence to where nextval('myfunsequence') is 1, and the only way to do it (I think) is to setval('myfunsequence', 0).
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> I can just create this particular sequence with minvalue 0 start 1, but I am wondering what is the downside to this being the default? Alternatively, is there a way to make setval accept a value that is $start - $increment as seems to happen on creation?
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Not true. Take a look at:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/functions-sequence.html

And note near the bottom, that you can setval with a third boolean value,
like so:

SELECT setval('foo', 1, false);

and the next nextval() will return 1