Re: Changeing Sequence

Why dont you insert the original values.
The FK should be intact if not you are already screwed.
After you have done migrating then you create the sequence with start max of
table.ids.
do an
ALTER TABLE table
ALTER COLUMN column SET DEFAULT 'seq';

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Atkins" <Peter(dot)Atkins(at)nextcard(dot)com>
To: "'PG Explorer'" <pgmail(at)pgexplorer(dot)com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: RE: [SQL] Changeing Sequence

> Understood!
>
> In this case it's a data integrity issue. Data in other tables(FK) rely on
> the ids being the same as in the previous database.
>
> Is there another way?
>
> -p
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PG Explorer [mailto:pgmail(at)pgexplorer(dot)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:17 PM
> To: Peter Atkins; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Changeing Sequence
>
>
> When you play around with the sequence you violate the meaning of the word
> sequence
> But in any case in ver 7.2 you can use
> SELECT setval('mytqble_id_seq', 25);
> and the next value of the sequence will be 26
>
> in older versions you can
> CREATE SEQUENCE 'mytqble_id_seq' START 25;
> or execute select nextval('mytqble_id_seq' ) 25 times
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Atkins" <Peter(dot)Atkins(at)nextcard(dot)com>
> To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:55 PM
> Subject: [SQL] Changeing Sequence
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > I have a table "mytable_id_seq" that looks like so.
> >
> > sequence_name | last_value | increment_by | max_value
|
> > min_value | cache_value | log_cnt | is_cycled | is_called
>
> ----------------------+------------+--------------+---------------------+-
> --
> > --------+-------------+---------+-----------+-----------
> > mytqble_id_seq | 4 | 1 | 9223372036854775807 |
> > 1 | 1 | 30 | f | t
> >
> >
> > I have data that must be entered into the table "mytable" with
pre-defined
> > ids (i.e. 1,3,5,7,25). Is it possible to change the sequence to start at
> > "26" the last value of the previous data?
> >
> > Please tell me YES! I get an error: "ERROR: You can't change sequence
> > relation t_staff_staff_id_seq"
> >
> > Any Help would be great!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -pete
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