Re: Skipping numbers in a sequence. - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Skipping numbers in a sequence.
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Msg-id 16712.975085689@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Skipping numbers in a sequence.  (GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>)
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GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net> writes:
> I just have that icky feeling that some day the sequence will roll over
> and hell with come after my ass. ;-))

At some point someone will doubtless get around to supporting sequences
based on int8 rather than int4 values.  Relying on that to happen before
you need it seems like a better answer than inventing slow,
hard-to-understand schemes for recycling sequence values.

            regards, tom lane

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