Use a stream id generator for backfilled ids

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/stream.py b/synapse/storage/stream.py

index cf84938be5..76bcd9cd00 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/stream.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/stream.py
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ class StreamStore(SQLBaseStore):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_room_events_max_id(self, direction='f'):
-        token = yield self._stream_id_gen.get_max_token()
+        token = yield self._stream_id_gen.get_current_token()
         if direction != 'b':
             defer.returnValue("s%d" % (token,))
         else: