Thread: Serial types

Serial types

From
" Sonia Sanchez Diaz"
Date:
How Can I restart the values of a serial type field...??

I mean, I have a table with id_user defined as serial type, if a delete the
data from this table and insert new data the field id_user will start the
counter from the last record it had saved...

So... I want the new records insert into the table begins again with 1.

I used alter table <table> alter id_user set default 1;

But, only I could insert one record with number 1.

Thanks for your answers.

Sonny

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Re: Serial types

From
Philip Hallstrom
Date:
SELECT SETVAL('sequence_name', 1, 't');

should do it.

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002,  Sonia Sanchez Diaz wrote:

> How Can I restart the values of a serial type field...??
>
> I mean, I have a table with id_user defined as serial type, if a delete the
> data from this table and insert new data the field id_user will start the
> counter from the last record it had saved...
>
> So... I want the new records insert into the table begins again with 1.
>
> I used alter table <table> alter id_user set default 1;
>
> But, only I could insert one record with number 1.
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> Sonny
>
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