| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key? |
| Date: | 2006-11-27 17:54:13 |
| Message-ID: | 1164650053.16182.25.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:47 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On 11/22/06 20:23, carter ck wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am wonderring if it is a good practice to use SERIAL index as primary
> > > key, as it is only available up to 9999999?
> > >
> > > Currently i am dealing with storing LDAP users into Postgres and i am
> > > looking for a better way to make use of the DN as primary key instead of
> > > SERIAL index.'
Bigserial?
Joshua D. Drake
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