On 04/19/2012 07:19 AM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> i do have a serial named 'rowid' it is of "SERIAL PRIMARY KEY" in a
> table 'items'.
>
> if i delete some of the rows i can't anymore insert afterwards.
>
> even if i rearrange de sequence by :
>
> "SELECT MAX(rowid) FROM items;";
> "SELECT last_value FROM items_rowid_seq;";
> then if last_value is lower than MAX(rowid) i set it to MAX(rowid) :
> "SELECT setval('items_rowid_seq', max(rowid)) FROM items;";
>
> and even after that i get an error when inserting by :
> "INSERT ... RETURNING rowid;"
>
> here I'm not only unable to read back the rowid but also inserion failed.
What does the error say?
>
> why ?
> --
> Yvon
>
>
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