Re: Serial column has suddenly stopped working - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Serial column has suddenly stopped working
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Msg-id 41C18792.8030309@archonet.com
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In response to Serial column has suddenly stopped working  (Malcolm Warren <malcolm@villeinitalia.com>)
List pgsql-general
Malcolm Warren wrote:
> I have been using a serial column in my most important postgres table
> for a couple of years.
>
> But today it has suddenly started assigning zero instead of the next
> number, which clearly is causing chaos.
> I have restarted Postgres, but it has not solved the problem. I cannot
> re-assign the serial number because it is tied to other tables.
> Anybody had this problem??
>
> I have reached number 14954 which we can't exactly call a high number.
>
> The column description is as follows:
>
> Name   srl
> type   bigint
> modifiers    default nextval(booking_srl_seq::text)

What happens if you go SELECT nextval('booking_srl_seq') - do you get
the expected number?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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