>>Thanks, Hilmar. Nice point about PADR - I may need to adjust my procedure.
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>Note that my procedure creates the sequence if it doesn't exist. You don't have to adjust the sequence table manually - unless there is some unforeseen problem, or business procedures mandate that the sequence start at a certain value other than 1.

The problem here is what if we're using this procedure on the existing table? We can not start with 1 again.

Also if we would insert the PK ourselves (as the program I work on does), we'll be in trouble again - I haven't thought about this possibility, actually.

Now, what should I do to be able to use Default values, but also allow for manual entry ? I don't see a simple way out now.