Re: Changeing Sequence

When you play around with the sequence you violate the meaning of the word
sequence
But in any case in ver 7.2 you can use
SELECT setval('mytqble_id_seq', 25);
and the next value of the sequence will be 26

in older versions you can
CREATE SEQUENCE 'mytqble_id_seq'  START 25;
or execute select nextval('mytqble_id_seq' ) 25 times

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Atkins" <Peter.Atkins@nextcard.com>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: [SQL] Changeing Sequence


> All,
>
> I have a table "mytable_id_seq" that looks like so.
>
>     sequence_name     | last_value | increment_by |      max_value      |
> min_value | cache_value | log_cnt | is_cycled | is_called
> ----------------------+------------+--------------+---------------------+-
--
> --------+-------------+---------+-----------+-----------
>  mytqble_id_seq |          4 |            1 | 9223372036854775807 |
> 1 |           1 |      30 | f         | t
>
>
> I have data that must be entered into the table "mytable" with pre-defined
> ids (i.e. 1,3,5,7,25). Is it possible to change the sequence to start at
> "26" the last value of the previous data?
>
> Please tell me YES! I get an error: "ERROR:  You can't change sequence
> relation t_staff_staff_id_seq"
>
> Any Help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> -pete
>
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