Re: SERIAL type not autoincremented - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: SERIAL type not autoincremented
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Msg-id 20040702182109.GB31625@wolff.to
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In response to SERIAL type not autoincremented  (teknet@poczta.onet.pl)
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On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 19:22:17 +0200,
  teknet@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
> Hello
> i have:
> create table student(
> id                      SERIAL NOT NULL,
> name               VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL,
> primary key (id)
> );
>
> and when i try to insert like this:
> insert into student (name) values('me');
> i receive error:
> ERROR:  duplicate key violates unique constraint "student_pkey"
>
> Why ? Do i understeand correctly that SERIAL == AUTO_INCREMENT ?
> As far as i remember i used such type in the past and had no problem.
> What do i miss ?

You probably manually changed the value of the sequence student_id_seq.

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