| From: | Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Indira Muthuswamy <indumuthu(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Bug? |
| Date: | 2006-10-21 15:25:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20061021152555.78840.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com |
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> Then how do we clear the values of a serial column(is it done only by
> dropping the column?)?
If you look at the following link, you will see that serial is not really a true data-type. It is
merely a short-cut to get the desired results:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL
Also, if you are interested in resetting your columns "serial" value back to 1 or 0 or -10000, you
can do it using the setval() function for the following link:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-sequence.html
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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