Re: how to alter sequence.

From: raja kumar thatte <trajakumar(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: raja kumar thatte <trajakumar(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to alter sequence.
Date: 2002-12-05 05:09:15
Message-ID: 20021205050915.70271.qmail@web20603.mail.yahoo.com
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Thanks everybody.

--- Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte
> wrote:
> > > Hai friends,
> > > I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value
> 3000.
> > ...
> > > now i wanted to increase the max value of the
> raj_seq
> > > to 9999999.
> > > How to do this change?
> > > If i drop and recreate the raj_seq, then i have
> to
> > > recreate the table and all triggers working on
> that
> > > table.But it is not an acceptable solution.
> > > So with out droping raj_seq , how do I solve
> this
> > > problem.
> >
> > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any easy
> way to do this. There
> > is no ALTER SEQUENCE command and you can't use
> UPDATE on a sequence.
>
> Gee, I thought they could just update the sequence
> table, but I see:
>
> test=> update yy set max_value = 100;
> ERROR: You can't change sequence relation yy
>
> > Hackers: Could this be a TODO item for 7.4?
>
> Added to TODO:
>
> * Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify
> min/max/increment/cache/cycle values
>
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