Re: Automatically update sequence - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: Automatically update sequence
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Msg-id 200803280935.56295@hal.medialogik.com
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In response to Automatically update sequence  (Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@etf.bg.ac.yu>)
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On Friday 28 March 2008, Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@etf.bg.ac.yu> wrote:
> Here, I used literal value for ID (1000), and I want my sequence to be
> updated to 1000 automatically (i.e. without calling setval).

You could probably use a trigger to do it, but it's not a great idea.

What you should do is fetch the next value from the sequence yourself and
then use it in the insert. Or, if you're pre-loading existing data, load it
and then set the sequence value afterwards.

--
Alan

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