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Asked: 2026-06-05T06:22:30+00:00

I am trying to delete a record in sqlite. i have four records record1,

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I am trying to delete a record in sqlite. i have four records record1, record2, record3, record 4
with id as Primary Key.

so it will auto increment for each record that i insert. now when i delete record 3, the primary key is not decrementing. what to do to decrement the id based on the records that i am deleting.

i want id to be 1,2,3 when i delete the record 3 from the database. now it is 1,2,4. Is there any sql query to change it. I tried this one

DELETE FROM TABLE_NAME WHERE name = ?

Note: I am implementing in xcode

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know why you want this but I would recommend leaving these IDs as is.
    What is wrong with having IDs as 1,2,4?
    Also you can potentially break things (referential integrity) if you use these ID values as foreign keys somewhere else.

    Also please refer to this page to get a better understanding how autoincrement fields works
    http://sqlite.org/autoinc.html

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