Re: SERIAL type not autoincremented

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 19:22:17 +0200,
teknet(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl wrote:
> Hello
> i have:
> create table student(
> id SERIAL NOT NULL,
> name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL,
> primary key (id)
> );
>
> and when i try to insert like this:
> insert into student (name) values('me');
> i receive error:
> ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "student_pkey"
>
> Why ? Do i understeand correctly that SERIAL == AUTO_INCREMENT ?
> As far as i remember i used such type in the past and had no problem.
> What do i miss ?

You probably manually changed the value of the sequence student_id_seq.