Re: Setting Sequence Values

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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:57:21 -0000
Martin <martin(at)cornhobble(dot)com> wrote:

> After porting tables and data from FrontBase I now find that I
> need to update all the values for the sequences that were created
> to reflect the data in the tables. Is there an easy way to do
> this?

Take a look at setval.

postgres=# select setval('foo_id_seq',(select max(id) from foo));
setval
- --------
100
(1 row)

postgres=# select currval('foo_id_seq');
currval
- ---------
100
(1 row)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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