On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 18/02/2008 17:46, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> Well, that depends on your usage, so only you can answer that.
>> According to the docs, "serial" creates an integer column, which
>> will give you 2147483647 values - how quickly will you use that lot
>> up? If you think you will run out, by all means use bigserial.
>
> Actually, that isn't quite right - just looked at the docs for
> CREATE SEQUENCE, and the default maximum value is 2^63-1.
That's the maximum value for the sequence itself, but a "serial" is
just an integer, so the 2^31-1 limit before wraparound still applies.
Cheers,
Steve
