Re: Reset sequence to current maximum value of rows

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 1:20 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:

> Two tables have a sequence for the PK. Over time I manually entered the PK
> numbers not being aware of applying DEFAULT to generate the next number.
>
> I just tried to set one table's PK sequence to the current max(PK) value
> using this expression from a stackexchange thread:
> SELECT setval('<sequence_name>', <current_max_number>, true); -- next
> value will be max(PK) + 1
>
> Needing to add a new row to a table for a specific industry table (with 52
> rows) I set the PK as DEFAULT in the INSERT INTO expression. To my surprise
> and disappointment all 52 rows now have the company_name column as the
> newly
> inserted name. Feh! I need to restore all the correct names for each PK.
>

If the table has a primary key, then the command *should* have failed with
a duplicate key error as soon as the first dupe was discovered.

What does your table definition look like?