| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tielman J de Villiers <tjdevil(at)bondnet(dot)co(dot)za> |
| Cc: | "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Serial data type not starting at 1 |
| Date: | 2001-11-15 14:41:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20011116014118.B3148@svana.org |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Tielman J de Villiers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me.
>
> I want to create a new table using the "automatic" sequence function of
> Postgres by creating the first column as type "serial". But I want to start
> at say "5000". Can it be done, and how?
I don't think you can do it within the table definition, but you can
certainly use setval() to change the value after the table has been created.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
http://svana.org/kleptog/
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