From: John Fabiani <johnf@jfcomputer.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: updating a sequence
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:06:30 -0800
Message-ID: <201111150806.30911.johnf@jfcomputer.com> (raw)
Hi,
I have need of a statement that updates the sequence but uses a max() to find
the number.
alter sequence somename restart with (select max(pk) from sometable).
I need this for automating an ETL (using pentaho).
Postgres 8.4
Thanks in advance,
Johnf
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