Re: Serial not so unique?

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:02:02AM +0800, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> At 09:18 AM 8/19/01 +1000, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> >Recreating the sequence solves the problem, of course. So does setval(102).
> >My problem is that it got into this state originally. The test case that
> >demonstrates it sometimes takes about 1.5 hours to run, and I have only got
>
> Maybe somewhere, something is using nextval of the wrong sequence?
>
> Did you do a search for setval (not setvar) in your code?
>
> Or grep for the sequence name.
>
> I suspect it's the app, but maybe you've just found a bug in PG.

The field in question is defined as a serial; until I started looking
at this I didn't even _know_ what the sequence was called.

There are no other sequences created (no explicit ones and no
other serial values).

Stephen