from django.db.backends.schema import BaseDatabaseSchemaEditor class DatabaseSchemaEditor(BaseDatabaseSchemaEditor): sql_create_sequence = "CREATE SEQUENCE %(sequence)s" sql_delete_sequence = "DROP SEQUENCE IF EXISTS %(sequence)s CASCADE" sql_set_sequence_max = "SELECT setval('%(sequence)s', MAX(%(column)s)) FROM %(table)s" def _alter_column_type_sql(self, table, column, type): """ Makes ALTER TYPE with SERIAL make sense. """ if type.lower() == "serial": sequence_name = "%s_%s_seq" % (table, column) return ( ( self.sql_alter_column_type % { "column": self.quote_name(column), "type": "integer", }, [], ), [ ( self.sql_delete_sequence % { "sequence": sequence_name, }, [], ), ( self.sql_create_sequence % { "sequence": sequence_name, }, [], ), ( self.sql_alter_column % { "table": table, "changes": self.sql_alter_column_default % { "column": column, "default": "nextval('%s')" % sequence_name, } }, [], ), ( self.sql_set_sequence_max % { "table": table, "column": column, "sequence": sequence_name, }, [], ), ], ) else: return super(DatabaseSchemaEditor, self)._alter_column_type_sql(table, column, type)