Django + PostgreSQL: How to reset primary key?

December 11, 2023 by Tarik

In your app directory try this:

python manage.py help sqlsequencereset

Pipe it into psql like this to actually run the reset:

python manage.py sqlsequencereset myapp1 myapp2 | psql

Edit: here’s an example of the output from this command on one of my tables:

BEGIN;
SELECT setval('"project_row_id_seq"', coalesce(max("id"), 1), max("id") IS NOT null) FROM "project_row";
COMMIT;