New feature for posgreSQL 7.3 & later -- sequences are automatically dropped when the owning table is dropped -- you need to recreate the sequence....
The easiest way is in your CREATE TABLE tblName ( id serial PRIMARY KEY, blah..., blah..., ) WITH OIDS; -- Greg Patnude / The Digital Demention 2916 East Upper Hayden Lake Road Hayden Lake, ID 83835 (208) 762-0762 "Ivo Anon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm new to postgresql and I'm having problems with the 'nextval' function > (or whatever it is called in postgresql). > > I created a table (called ADDRESS) using 'pgadmin' which has a serial field > (called addressid). When I tried the sql statement: > > select nextval('public."ADDRESS_addressid_seq"') > > everything seemed to be working fine. > > I then used the create table statement (displayed in pgadmin when the table > 'ADDRESS' is selected) to create the same table (of course after first > dropping 'ADDRESS'). When I try the same select-statement I suddenly got an > error message saying: > > ERROR: Relation "public"."ADDRESS_addressid_seq" does not exist > > Can anybody help me with this problem? > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend