On 9/6/06, Arturo Perez <aperez@hayesinc.com> wrote:
> What happens is that if I do a select nextval('seq') I get a number
> that's lower than the
> max primary key id. This is inspite of my doing
> SELECT setval('seq', ((SELECT MAX(seq_ID) FROM table)+1))
> ALTER SEQUENCE seq RESTART WITH <max + 1>;
> select pg_catalog.setval(seq, <max+1>, true);
>
are you running those statements to fetch the next key in the table?
you might have a race condition there. try wrappnig in a userlock.
merlin