Re: autoupdate sequences after copy

I just run a script to update them after importing data. Something like this... (not a real script...)

while read tablename
do
echo "select setval('${tablename}_${tablename}_seq', \
(select max(${tablename}id) from $tablename))" | psql database
done
< tablenames.txt

Of course, this assumes you allowed the default sequence names to be created via SERIAL and that you created the primary keys as <tablename>id. You might need a text file with table, key, and sequence names, but this is likely easier than issuing a bunch of psql commands by hand.

Ian Harding
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Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
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>>> CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> 10/09/03 12:10PM >>>
On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:10, CSN wrote:
> Is there a way to have p/k sequences get
automatically
> set to max(id)+1 after COPY's like the following?
>
> copy table1 (id,name) from stdin;
> 1 abc
> 2 def
> 3 fhi
> \.

Not really - if you don't use the sequence it keeps
its value. If you look at
pg_dump it issues an explicit setval() after a copy.

I'm not sure you can even work around it with a BEFORE
trigger to check and
update the sequence, the nextval() call will probably
be processed before the
trigger gets called (haven't checked). In any case,
performance would be a
bit poor.

Is there any reason why you're supplying your own id
values when you already
have a sequence?

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

> Is there any reason why you're supplying your own id
values when you already have a sequence?

I'm importing a lot of data and tables (from mysql)
and want to keep the ID's the same.

CSN

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