Hi,
I believe you could also create the sequence, then update it with
setval('<sequence name>', <number>);
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote:
>
> Yes, there is.
>
> When you create a serial column a sequence is created, which does the
> counting.
>
> You can create a serial column, drop the associated sequence and create
> a new one with the command:
> "CREATE SEQUENCE seqname START 1000".
>
> See also "\h CREATE SEQUENCE".
>
> HTH,
> Poul L. Christansen
>
> cbell wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > when creating a serial column, is there a way to specify which number it
> > will start counting from? For example, if you wanted all Serial ID's to
> > start at 1000 and count up from there, with no numbers below that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris.
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