Manually update the counter used for generation of primary key in Hibernate?

Question

In my spring project, the tables in database are created automatically by Hibernate using my entity classes as base, but I insert some default values in the table manually (usin

Answer 1

Call this SQL query once per table to set the sequence to the next free number:

SELECT setval('tblname_id_seq', max(id)) FROM tblname;

tblname being the actual name of the table.

Hibernate may use a different naming convention, or the sequence may have been renamed. If you can't find the sequence behind the serial column, check with (per documentation):

SELECT pg_get_serial_sequence(tblname, column_name)

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