How to get Django AutoFields to start at a higher number

Question

For our Django App, we\'d like to get an AutoField to start at a number other than 1. There doesn\'t seem to be an obvious way to do this. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here is what I did..

def update_auto_increment(value=5000, app_label="remrate_data"):
    """Update our increments"""
    from django.db import connection, transaction, router
    models = [m for m in get_models() if m._meta.app_label == app_label]
    cursor = connection.cursor()
    for model in models:
        _router = settings.DATABASES[router.db_for_write(model)]['NAME']
        alter_str = "ALTER table {}.{} AUTO_INCREMENT={}".format(
            _router, model._meta.db_table, value)
        cursor.execute(alter_str)
        transaction.commit_unless_managed()