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From ebp
Subject Primary Key problem
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Msg-id 002701c1c3b0$a81b33e0$3601a8c0@chaos
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It seems that any additions to our target table results in a violation:
 
[04/Mar/2002:14:08:43][2208.492550][-conn59-] Error: Ns_PgExec: result status: 7 message: ERROR:  Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index kbeg_pkey
 
[04/Mar/2002:14:08:43][2208.492550][-conn59-] Error: dbinit: error(localhost::echonew,ERROR:  Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index kbeg_pkey
): 'insert into kbeg values (nextval('kbeg_sequence'),'Anthony','Estevez','77th street','New York','NY','77777','7777777777','AnthonyEstevez@yahoo.com','notes',NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,'Test',NULL,NULL,NULL)'
[04/Mar/2002:14:08:43][2208.492550][-conn59-] Error:
Database operation "dml" failed
    while executing
"ns_db dml $db "insert into kbeg values (nextval('kbeg_sequence'),[ns_dbquotevalue $fname],[ns_dbquotevalue $lname],[ns_dbquotevalue $address],[ns_dbqu..."
    invoked from within chunk: 0 of adp: /web/server1/www/kbegmailer/josestestsfiles/NewCharIn.adp
I was wondering how i could check/increment the key value, possibly to find out if there is data after the current key value. I believe that when we imported some files, they threw off the key values for some reason, probably jumping to some other starting point than the next available value.
 
-Anthony

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