Re: Serial Unique question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: Serial Unique question
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In response to Re: Serial Unique question  (Madison Kelly <linux@alteeve.com>)
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Madison Kelly <linux@alteeve.com> writes:

> Douglas McNaught wrote:
>> Madison Kelly <linux@alteeve.com> writes:
>>
>>>   I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
>>>   likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
>>>   wondering, what happens when the serial value reaches
>>>   2,147,483,647'? Does it roll back over to '1' and keep going or
>>>   will the database start erroring out? This isn't likely to be a
>>>   problem any time soon, but over the course of a year or more it
>>>   might be.
>> Use a "bigserial" instead?
>> -Doug
>>
>
> Same issue, delaying a potential problem, not addressing it. :)

Do the math.  :)

-Doug

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