On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John <jo...@jfcomputer.com> wrote: > I am the only developer, DBA etc.. for a small project. Today (yesterday > was > everything was perfect) many of the sequence numbers fell behind what is > the > actual PK value. For example the invoice PK sequence current value = 1056 > but the table PK was 1071. Nobody (other than myself) knows how to > edit/access the postgres server. So > > 1. Does anyone know how this could have happened?????? Other than human > interaction. > > 2. Does anyone have a script to reset the sequences to match the tables? > > Thanks in advance, > > Johnf > > -- > Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql >
John, If the insert is performed to triggered table, and that trigger returns null (doesn't insert) then the sequence will increment, but no data will be inserted. If needed I will send you some code examples where it happened to me many times. Sincerely -- --------------------------------------- Viktor Bojović --------------------------------------- Wherever I go, Murphy goes with me
