Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I created a modifier for auto incrementing my primary key as follows:
>
> records=# \d users
> Table "public.users"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
> id | integer | not null default
> nextval('users_seq_id'::regclass)
> fname | character varying(40) | not null
> lname | character varying(40) | not null
> email | character varying(40) | not null
> office | character varying(5) | not null
> dob | date | not null
> title | character varying(40) | not null
> Indexes:
> "users_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
> "users_email_key" UNIQUE, btree (email)
>
> I recently tried to remove the modifier and it failed because it was
> associated with the 'id' column so my question is how do I remove /
> delete the modifier so I can delete the sequence I created to auto
> increment my 'id' value? I don't want to drop the id column / loss my
> column data, I just want to remove the associated modifier so I can
> drop the sequence.
If you are truly intent on removing the sequence you'll need to do the
following:
alter sequence users_seq_id owned by NONE
alter table users alter column id drop default
drop sequence users_seq_id
HTH
Bosco.
