Resetting serial type after "delete from table"

On Saturday 8. May 2010 10.11.32 John Gage wrote:

If I "delete from table", which table contains a serial type field,
and then insert new rows into the table "excluding the [serial] column
from the list of columns in the INSERT statement", the numbers in the
serial column resume where they left off prior to the "delete from
table": 639, 640, 641, 642 for example.

This behavior is totally acceptable, but is it possible to have the
serial column reset itself to 1 following "delete from table" (i.e.
following flushing all the rows from the table)? The only way I can
think to do this is by altering the table by dropping the serial
column and then altering it again by adding a new serial column before
doing the insert. That is only a couple of more lines of script, so I
don't do the work, but is there an easier way?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-
SERIAL

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html

regards,
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Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/blog/

Thanks very, very much. I got as far as 8.1.4 and did not find 9.15.

May I suggest that the documentation have an index entry under
"serial" for 9.15, which is a major heading whereas 8.1.4 is a minor
heading and has its own index entry?

This is said from the perspective of awe for the documentation.

John