Re: Changeing Sequence

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Peter Atkins <Peter(dot)Atkins(at)nextcard(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changeing Sequence
Date: 2002-03-26 20:11:56
Message-ID: 20020326121027.U13230-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Peter Atkins wrote:

> 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?

select setval('mytqble_id_seq', 25);

should make the next result 26 I believe.

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