Re: SERIAL or INT8 / Unique BLOB's - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeffrey W. Baker
Subject Re: SERIAL or INT8 / Unique BLOB's
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0201022134440.31459-100000@windmill.gghcwest.com
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In response to Re: SERIAL or INT8 / Unique BLOB's  (Dave Trombley <dtrom@bumba.net>)
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Dave Trombley wrote:

> Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> >
> >yabbut, has anyone seen yet if 7.2 can use bigint in an index (on a 32-bit
> >machine)?
> >
>
> I don't see why it wouldn't!  gcc has supported 8-byte longs for a
> (*sigh*) long, long, time now. =)
> This is on my i686-class linux box, build of yesterday's CVS snapshot:

I only asked because 7.1 won't use a bigint index under any circumstances.
I discovered this *after* creating some tremendously large tables :)

-jwb


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