You can just reset the next-available value with "select setval
('sequencename', newvalue);"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Thomas" <sthomas@townnews.com>
To: <roypgsqlgen@xemaps.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] maintaining sequences
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 roypgsqlgen@xemaps.com wrote:
>
> > Or I guess I'm asking if I can add a default sequence into a column
> > after I've created the table and added data to it?
>
> The easiest way to do this is just create your table as normal, do
> your data load (it will ignore the sequence if you're manually setting
> the identity columns) and then drop and recreate the sequence with
> the starting value you want.
>
> See, easy. ^_^
>
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