Re: Alter sequence restart with selected value... - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 9/18/07, Jeff Ross <jross@wykids.org> wrote:
> I'm using copy to insert a bunch of rows into a new table with a unique
> primary key.  Copy is correctly incrementing the primary key, but
> apparently the sequence itself is never updated because when I go to
> insert again I get a constraint violation.

Try using setval.

select setval('seqname',select max(id) from tablename));