from django.db import connection def restart_id_sequence(table_name: str) -> None: """ This function resets the id sequence from the given table (the current auto increment value for the id field) to the max_id+1. This is needed, when manually inserting object id, because Postgresql does not update the id sequence in this case. """ if connection.vendor == "postgresql": with connection.cursor() as cursor: cursor.execute(f"SELECT max(id) + 1 as max FROM {table_name};") max_id = cursor.fetchone()[0] if max_id is not None: cursor.execute( f"ALTER SEQUENCE {table_name}_id_seq RESTART WITH {max_id};" )