I just had an issue with Django and PostgreSQL that I don't understand.
I have a simple model, defined such as:
class MyModel(models.Model):
my_field = models.IntegerField()
my_other_field = models.TextField()
In my view, i have something similar to:
my_object = MyModel(my_field=1, my_other_field='blah')
my_object.save()
Everything was working fine, until this morning. I got this error:
IntegrityError at /my_url/
duplicate key value violates unique constraint "my_model_pkey"
DETAIL: Key (id)=(3) already exists.
CONTEXT: Remote SQL command: INSERT INTO public.my_model(id, my_field, my_other_field) VALUES ($1, $2, $3) RETURNING id
I had this error once, I know it is related to the way PostgreSQL syncs the sequential table associated with my model with the id column. I has to run this function in PostgreSQL until the id
returned was greater than the biggest value of the id
.
select nextval('my_model_id_seq'::regclass);
My question is: Why did this happen in the first place? And how to prevent it in the future ?
By the way, that's the only way I insert data into the table, I've never inserted data manually.
I hope the question is clear enough