Hello Everyone,
My name is Matt, this is my first post to the list. I've been using post for a while and love it. I haven't had any
issueswith it and i have found it to be a great and very flexible system.
That said... I looked through the archives a bit but could not find what i was looking for so here goes:
It seems that when i manually insert an id into a serial id column the sequence doesn't get updated so that when i:
CREATE TABLE table1 (
table1_id SERIAL,
name VARCHAR( 255 ),
PRIMARY KEY( table1_id )
);
// Manually set id during a migration process
INSERT INTO table1( table1_id, name ) VALUES( 1, 'test' );
the id 1 has now been used, er, should be used. Then when i:
// Let post use seq to set id when inserting brand new record
INSERT INTO table1( name ) VALUE( 'Matt' );
post tries to use the id 1 "again" and the insert fails. Shouldn't post know that i already used 1 and use the next
valin the sequence, in this case post should really say, hey 1 is used i will set the id to 2.
I should then end up with 2 records
table1_id | name
----------------
1 | test
2 | Matt
So does post not update a SERIAL column sequence when id's are manually entered? Would I have to manually do a nextval
onthe seq when manually setting id's? Should't post know that i used an id number and use the next availible number,
somethinglike ( (the largest id number in the key) + increment_val )?
I can elaborate more if needed. Thanks in advance!!!
Matt
