Update sequences for the re-opening of the petitions website #959
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Otherwise tools like pg_dump and pg_restore will fail.
Depending on what version of Rails and PostgreSQL was being used at the time the sequence type could be either integer or bigint. We keep the sequences for departments, tags and topics as integer since we're keeping the primary keys as integer for compatibility with the int_array extension. We also set the MAXVALUE on archived_petitions to ensure it doesn't run into the sequence values for the current petitions.
When we start a new parliament we restart the petition id sequence at a nice round number to make it clear to the moderators whether a petition is in a previous parliament or not.
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When we start a new parliament we restart the petition id sequence at a nice round number to make it clear to the moderators whether a petition is in a previous parliament or not.