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

I needed to do something similar. I avoided the complex stuff and simply created two fields:

id_no = models.AutoField(unique=True)
my_highvalue_id = models.IntegerField(null=True)

In views.py, I then simply added a fixed number to the id_no:

my_highvalue_id = id_no + 1200

I'm not sure if it helps resolve your issue, but I think you may find it an easy go-around.