Re: Best practice for long-lived journal tables: bigint or recycling IDs? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have some tables that continually collect statistics, and then over time are
> pruned as the stats are aggregated into more useful formats. 
> 
> For some of these tables, it it is fore-seeable that the associated sequences
> would be incremented past the max value of the "int" type in the normal course
> of things. 
> 
> I see two options to prepare for that:

3. Deal with wraparound by ensuring that the applications behave sanely

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