"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
>> Why in the world aren't you using a serial int8 column, instead?
> I am using Postgresql 7.1.3 (our own native port) and I was not aware
> that feature was available.
It may not be, in 7.1 --- I forget when we widened sequences to int8.
However, 64-bit OIDs are certainly never going to appear in 7.1 either.
regards, tom lane