Reset auto increment counter in postgres

Question

I would like to force the auto increment field of a table to some value, I tried with this:

ALTER TABLE product AUTO_INCREMENT = 1453

AND

ALTER SEQUENCE product  RESTART WITH 1453;

ERROR:  relation "your_sequence_name" does not exist

I'm new to postgres :(

I have a table product with Id and name field

Answer 1

If you have created the table product with associated id column, then the sequence isn't merely known as product, however rather product_id_seq (that is, ${table}_${column}_seq).

This is the ALTER SEQUENCE command that you need:

ALTER SEQUENCE product_id_seq RESTART WITH 1453

 In PSQL, you can see the sequences in the database by using the \ds command. 

Note: If you are doing \d product and observe the default constraint for your column, the nextval(...) decision call can specify the sequence name too.

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