On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Tielman J de Villiers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me.
>
> I want to create a new table using the "automatic" sequence function of
> Postgres by creating the first column as type "serial". But I want to start
> at say "5000". Can it be done, and how?
I would think you can use setval() on the sequence created by the serial
before any rows are inserted in order to start at a different value.