Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Glaesemann
Subject Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit
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Msg-id 4388A7D9-C975-4DFD-8252-34AD6E5594D0@myrealbox.com
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In response to Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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On Oct 11, 2005, at 15:12 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Out of curiosity... why don't we have unsigned ints? I for one would
> certainly use them for id fields, as well as some other places where I
> knew negative numbers weren't valid.

Check the archives. I know this has come up a number of times in the
past, but don't recall the reasons off the top of my head.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com




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