How to reset sequence in postgres and fill id column with new data?

Question

I have a table with over million rows. I need to reset sequence and reassign id column with new values (1, 2, 3, 4... etc...). Is any easy way to do that?

Answer 1

Just for simplifying and clarifying the proper usage of ALTER SEQUENCE and SELECT setval for resetting the sequence:

ALTER SEQUENCE sequence_name RESTART WITH 1;

is equivalent to

SELECT setval('sequence_name', 1, FALSE);

Either of the statements may be used to reset the sequence and you can get the next value by nextval('sequence_name') as stated here also:

nextval('sequence_name')