Re: alter sequence - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 11:42 +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2012-11-24, Peter Kroon <plakroon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > --f46d04389321c8f47d04cf3c0f32
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> > ALTER SEQUENCE (select pg_get_serial_sequence('table', 'id')) RESTART WITH
> > 1;
>
> > The query fails:
> > ALTER SEQUENCE (select pg_get_serial_sequence('table...
> > it's because of the (
>
> you can end-run this problem by using the (undocumented ?) function setval:
>
> select pg_catalog.setval(pg_get_serial_sequence('table','id') ,1,false);
>

It's documented:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/functions-sequence.html
for setval and
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-info.html for
pg_get_serial_sequence.


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