Re: Resetting serial type after "delete from table"

On Saturday 8. May 2010 10.11.32 John Gage wrote:
> If I "delete from table", which table contains a serial type field,
> and then insert new rows into the table "excluding the [serial] column
> from the list of columns in the INSERT statement", the numbers in the
> serial column resume where they left  off prior to the "delete from
> table": 639, 640, 641, 642 for example.
>
> This behavior is totally acceptable, but is it possible to have the
> serial column reset itself to 1 following  "delete from table" (i.e.
> following flushing all the rows from the table)?  The only way I can
> think to do this is by altering the table by dropping the serial
> column and then altering it again by adding a new serial column before
> doing the insert.  That is only a couple of more lines of script, so I
> don't do the work, but is there an easier way?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-
SERIAL

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html

regards,
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Leif Biberg Kristensen
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