Re: resetting primary key after copy - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: resetting primary key after copy
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Msg-id 20070212174557.GA24776@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to resetting primary key after copy  (Don Guernsey <dononyx@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-novice
am  Mon, dem 12.02.2007, um  9:28:40 -0800 mailte Don Guernsey folgendes:
> does anyone know how to do this? I need to reset the primary key after I copy a

Why? Do you want to break the primary key? You can use setval() for
this.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-sequence.html


> bunch of data to postgres. The other option would be to start my tables primary
> key at a high number, like 3000000. Any Ideas?

Also with setval() or create sequence foo start 300000;


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