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.

Gee, I thought they could just update the sequence table, but I see:
        
        test=> update yy set max_value = 100;
        ERROR:  You can't change sequence relation yy

> Hackers: Could this be a TODO item for 7.4?

Added to TODO:

        * Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values

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