| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | wsheldah(at)lexmark(dot)com |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: First decent PostgreSQL CBT now on techdocs .postgresql.org |
| Date: | 2001-12-28 18:38:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200112281838.fBSIcIk29632@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> 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').
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> 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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