RE: reinitialise serial counter - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Edmar Wiggers
Subject RE: reinitialise serial counter
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In response to reinitialise serial counter  (Indraneel Majumdar <indraneel@www.cdfd.org.in>)
List pgsql-sql
> after inserting values and doing delete from test if I try to insert
> values again, the id starts from where it left off previously. How can I
> get the serial counter to restart from 1 ? is it anything to do with
> setval(). How to use the setval?

The serial value is implemented using a sequence object (see the docs). Once
a sequence returns a number it will never return it again (that's what
sequences are for!).

A serial field is not a good approach if you always want to start numbering
at 1.

Yours sincerely,

Edmar Wiggers
BRASMAP Information Systems
+55 48 9960 2752



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