Fixing a sequence value

Yesterday I copied data from the old production server to the new production server. One thing I missed, but did think about at the time, was updating the sequence used by the table in question. Looking at the table definition:

freshports.org=# \d report_log
                                          Table "public.report_log"
    Column    |           Type           | Collation | Nullable |                  Default                   
--------------+--------------------------+-----------+----------+--------------------------------------------
 id           | integer                  |           | not null | nextval('report_log_id_seq'::regclass)
 report_id    | integer                  |           | not null | 
 frequency_id | integer                  |           |          | 
 report_date  | timestamp with time zone |           | not null | ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone
 email_count  | integer                  |           | not null | 
 commit_count | integer                  |           | not null | 
 port_count   | integer                  |           | not null | 
Indexes:
    "report_log_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "$1" FOREIGN KEY (frequency_id) REFERENCES report_frequency(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
    "$2" FOREIGN KEY (report_id) REFERENCES reports(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE

freshports.org=# 

The report_log_id_seq value will be wrong. When the reports run, they will use values for id which are already present in the table. To confirm, I ran this test:

freshports.org=# BEGIN;
BEGIN
freshports.org=# INSERT INTO report_log (report_id, frequency_id, email_count, commit_count, port_count) VALUES (2, 4, 0, 0, 0);
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "report_log_pkey"
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(19074) already exists.
freshports.org=# ROLLBACK;
ROLLBACK
freshports.org=# SELECT max(id) FROM report_log;
  max  
-------
 20144
(1 row)

freshports.org=# 

Historically, I have done this with setval but today I will try ALTER SEQUENCE.

freshports.org=# BEGIN; ALTER SEQUENCE report_log_id_seq RESTART WITH 20145;
BEGIN
ALTER SEQUENCE
freshports.org=# INSERT INTO report_log (report_id, frequency_id, email_count, commit_count, port_count) VALUES (2, 4, 0, 0, 0);
INSERT 0 1
freshports.org=# ROLLBACK;
ROLLBACK

That worked, so I rolled it back and this time I’ll save the changes without inserting data;

freshports.org=# BEGIN; ALTER SEQUENCE report_log_id_seq RESTART WITH 20145;
BEGIN
ALTER SEQUENCE
freshports.org=# COMMIT;
COMMIT
freshports.org=# 

I remembered this issue while sorting out a configuration & code error this morning.