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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Przemysław Słupkowski <przemyslaw.slupkowski@euro.coig.pl>
To: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:55:54 +0100
Message-ID: <200309250855.54588.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005601c3832f$61fbcf60$930f10ac@win.coig.com>
References: <005601c3832f$61fbcf60$930f10ac@win.coig.com>

On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:36, Przemysław Słupkowski wrote:
> Hi
> I am using postgresql 7.3.x. I am upgrating a database PostgreSQL.
> The main problem is how to change field last value in sequencde which
> exists in database. I created script to read this field and then I'm drop
> the table, do modification and i'm must change this value to another value.
> But DBMS returns me message like that
> ERROR:  You can't change sequence relation seq_id_seq
> How to do this

Are you using and UPDATE to set last_value? If so, you should use the setval() 
function instead.

SELECT setval('my_seq', 1234);

-- 
  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd



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