On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:00 +0200, Sterpu Victor wrote: > I have the following table ... > And the sequence for the id column: > CREATE SEQUENCE cachedgroupmembers_id_seq CACHE 1000; > > Now the table is empty and I try to insert a row in this table: > INSERT INTO cachedgroupmembers(groupid) values(55); > And it works. > > Next I populate the table wittt aprox 700.000 records. Now you need to set the sequence value: SELECT setval('cachedgroupmembers_id_seq',(select max(id) FROM cachedgroupmembers); > And I do again "INSERT INTO cachedgroupmembers(groupid) values(55);". > The error is : ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint > "cachedgroupmembers_pkey" That was because the sequence was trying to reuse one of the 700,000 values you just loaded. -- Oliver Elphick olly@xxxxxxxxxx Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html