Re: Resetting Serial Column Sequence Number - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Resetting Serial Column Sequence Number
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Msg-id 20061014063755.GA6530@KanotixBox
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In response to Resetting Serial Column Sequence Number  ("Adam" <adam@spatialsystems.org>)
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Adam <adam@spatialsystems.org> schrieb:

>
> I just emptied my table and I want all my new inserts to start with a
> 'location_id' of '1'. The table is named "locations" with a SERIAL column
> "location_id"
>
> I tried the below SQL to rest the sequence ID but it's not working.  What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> SELECT setval('locations_location_id_seq', (SELECT max(location_id) + 1 FROM
> locations));

The table locations are empty? Yeah, select max(location_id) from an
empty table is NULL, not 0. And NULL+1 -> NULL. You can't set a Sequence
to NULL, that makes no sense.


Andreas
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