Re: [ADMIN] how to alter sequence.

Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

From: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: raja kumar thatte <trajakumar@yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-12-04T16:18:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:06, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:29, raja kumar thatte wrote:
> > Hai friends,
> > I have a sequence called raj_seq with max value 3000.
> ...
> > now i wanted to increase the max value of the raj_seq
> > to 9999999.
> > How to do this change?
> > If i drop and recreate the raj_seq, then i have to
> > recreate the table and all triggers working on that
> > table.But it is not an acceptable solution.
> > So with out droping raj_seq , how do I solve this
> > problem.
> 
> Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any easy way to do this.  There
> is no ALTER SEQUENCE command and you can't use UPDATE on a sequence.
> 
> Hackers: Could this be a TODO item for 7.4?

I'm hoping to do that one sooner than later, unless Neil beats me to it.

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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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