On Sep 6, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On 9/6/06, Arturo Perez <aperez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:What happens is that if I do a select nextval('seq') I get a number that's lower than the max primary key id. This is inspite of my doing SELECT setval('seq', ((SELECT MAX(seq_ID) FROM table)+1)) ALTER SEQUENCE seq RESTART WITH <max + 1>; select pg_catalog.setval(seq, <max+1>, true);are you running those statements to fetch the next key in the table? you might have a race condition there. try wrappnig in a userlock. merlin
No, not running them to get the next key. Just trying to reset the sequence so that I stop getting duplicates.
A race condition is unlikely as only one person can actually add these things to the system.
-arturo
