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Is there a way to set the counter of id values for objects in Django?
For example I have an set of objects ‘Video’ that are currently at id=100 the next time I create an object of type ‘Video’ it will be id=101. However I’d like to have all newly created Video objects start at id=2000. is there a way to do this?
You can make a fixture that creates a dummy row in your database with ID=1999. The next auto-generated ID would be 2000 then.
This solution probably depends on you database backend to ‘resume where you left off’. At least MySql and PostgreSQL do this (I guess every backend does this).
There’s also a solution for MySql only (as far as I know) that consists of a SQL statement
ALTER TABLE tbl AUTO_INCREMENT = 100;That wouldn’t be database agnostic anymore, though.