# Importing users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-users/299772>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [March 18, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-users/299772 "2024-03-18T07:57:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-users/299772/3 "2024-03-23T14:58:29Z")

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When I looked at the database table for users I saw:

`id | integer | | not null | nextval('users_id_seq'::regclass)`

So I think if the importation script doesn’t follow the sequence or reset the sequence higher, then you could get a duplicate key and fail.

Hopefully the importation script you use respects the sequence and doesn’t insert into the database ‘blindly’.

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