>
>
> Looks like someone could take advantage of the broader range of sequence values,
> but only if they explicitly created their column as int8 with the default set to
> nextval('the_sequence').
>
> Should the serial datatype be changed to create an int8, or a new serial8
> datatype created that does this??
Tom says we have a new SERIAL8 data type for this. I see it in the
HISTORY file now.
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