Re: auto fill the missing numbers

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:19 +1100, Greg Nissen wrote:
> i have recently converted an ms access program using the standard jet
> backend over to postgres using an ODBC driver, i have managed to sort most
> bugs out except this one
>
> ms access already had some 57000 transaction loaded into the old database,
> when i linked to postgres using the ODBC driver, all these transaction came
> over, as excepted, but when i create a new record now, the database is
> filling in all the missing numbers prior to 57000, which jumbles up my
> record table. How can i get the postgres database to start off from 57001
>
> any help would be a help

I am guessing here but likely you have an autoincrementing number that
the sequence was set to 1. I suggest you look into setval() in the docs.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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