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

Even the auto-increment column is not PK ( in this example it is called seq - aka sequence ) you could achieve that with a trigger :

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS devops_guide CASCADE;

SELECT 'create the "devops_guide" table'
;
   CREATE TABLE devops_guide (
      guid           UUID NOT NULL DEFAULT gen_random_uuid()
    , level          integer NULL
    , seq            integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 1
    , name           varchar (200) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'name ...'
    , description    text NULL
    , CONSTRAINT pk_devops_guide_guid PRIMARY KEY (guid)
    ) WITH (
      OIDS=FALSE
    );

-- START trg_devops_guide_set_all_seq
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fnc_devops_guide_set_all_seq()
    RETURNS TRIGGER
    AS $$
       BEGIN
         UPDATE devops_guide SET seq=col_serial FROM
         (SELECT guid, row_number() OVER ( ORDER BY seq) AS col_serial FROM devops_guide ORDER BY seq) AS tmp_devops_guide
         WHERE devops_guide.guid=tmp_devops_guide.guid;

         RETURN NEW;
       END;
    $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

 CREATE TRIGGER trg_devops_guide_set_all_seq
  AFTER UPDATE OR DELETE ON devops_guide
  FOR EACH ROW
  WHEN (pg_trigger_depth() < 1)
  EXECUTE PROCEDURE fnc_devops_guide_set_all_seq();