Re: [HACKERS] Bug?

See section 9.12 of the docs.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:28:58PM +0530, Indira Muthuswamy wrote:
> Then how do we clear the values of a serial column(is it done only by
> dropping the column?)?
> 
> Regards,
> M.Indira
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/19/06, Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
> >
> >Moving to -sql.
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:53:46PM +0530, Indira Muthuswamy wrote:
> >> Hai,
> >>
> >> I have encountered a problem with PostgreSQL.I have created a table
> >> 'tab1' with a column 'a' with serial type.I entered 20 records into the
> >> table.So the query
> >>  select max(a) from tab1;
> >> returned 20.When I tried the same query after the command
> >> truncate table tab1;
> >> I found that the output of the first query as
> >>
> >> max
> >> -----
> >>
> >> (1 row)
> >> When I tried to insert a new row into the table tab1 I found that the
> >> value at column a incremented to the value 21.
> >> But I heard from my friends that the value of the serial column gets
> >> decremented whenever we issue the 'truncate table' command (in MS SQL
> >> SERVER).Is the concept same with PostgreSQL or not?Can anyone clarify me
> >on
> >> this?
> >
> >Your friends are mistaken. TRUNCATE does nothing to affect sequences.
> >--
> >Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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> >

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