Re: TRUNCATE TABLE with IDENTITY

On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> All of them? PostgreSQL allow multiple SERIALs to be present,
> the standard allows only one IDENTITY column in a table.
> And what about this case below?
>
> CREATE TABLE t1 (id1 serial, ...);
> ALTER SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 RESTART WITH 5432 CYCLE;
>
> or the equivalent
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 START WITH 5432 CYCLE;
> CREATE TABLE t1 (id1 serial, ...);
> ALTER SEQUENCE seq_t1_id1 OWNED BY t1.id1;
>
> PostgreSQL doesn't keep the START WITH information.
> But it should to perform a "restart" on the sequence,
> using the minval in this case wouldn't be correct.


I think you misunderstand what ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART does; it only  
changes the current value of the sequence.
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