Re: Problem with Auto Increment

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Ben Kassel <kasselb(at)nswccd(dot)navy(dot)mil>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem with Auto Increment
Date: 2002-11-04 20:45:28
Message-ID: 20021104124318.I11215-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Ben Kassel wrote:

> When I try to create a new row in this table and do not explicitly
> define a unique value for datadefindex I get the following error
> message:

> More information : If I DROP the database, recreate it, and enter
> values into the table manually, the autoincrement works on this table.
> It seems that the problem arises after I reload the data into the table
> using the \i command on a file which was created using the pg_dump
> command.

Was that a data only dump that you were reloading? I'd guess that a data
only dump is assuming that you have/will set the sequence's next value
correctly yourself. You might just try finding the max value and using
setval on the sequence to get the sequence in the right place.

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