| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Skipping numbers in a sequence. |
| Date: | 2000-11-24 17:08:09 |
| Message-ID: | 16712.975085689@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net> writes:
> I just have that icky feeling that some day the sequence will roll over
> and hell with come after my ass. ;-))
At some point someone will doubtless get around to supporting sequences
based on int8 rather than int4 values. Relying on that to happen before
you need it seems like a better answer than inventing slow,
hard-to-understand schemes for recycling sequence values.
regards, tom lane
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