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Re: Automatically update sequence

by ahodgson@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Hodgson) Mar 28, 2008 at 09:35 AM

On Friday 28 March 2008, Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Here, I used literal value for ID (1000), and I want my sequence to be
> updated to 1000 automatically (i.e. without calling setval).

You could probably use a trigger to do it, but it's not a great idea.

What you should do is fetch the next value from the sequence yourself and 
then use it in the insert. Or, if you're pre-loading existing data, load
it 
and then set the sequence value afterwards.

-- 
Alan

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Automatically update sequence
ognjen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-28 16:54:11 
Re: Automatically update sequence
sdavis2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-28 12:28:58 
Re: Automatically update sequence
ahodgson@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-03-28 09:35:56 
Re: Automatically update sequence
ognjen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-28 17:39:43 

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