Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:47 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On 11/22/06 20:23, carter ck wrote:
> > > Hi all,
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> > > I am wonderring if it is a good practice to use SERIAL index as primary
> > > key, as it is only available up to 9999999?
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> > > Currently i am dealing with storing LDAP users into Postgres and i am
> > > looking for a better way to make use of the DN as primary key instead of
> > > SERIAL index.'


Bigserial?

Joshua D. Drake


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