Re: Would you do this?

Quoting Christian Marschalek (cm(at)chello(dot)at):
> I'm on a project that deals with a users database... Every user gets a
> id assigned. If he cancles his account, the next user to register will
> get his id. Would you do this? Or just let there be gaps between user
> ids?
>
> I guess just using a serial data type and don't care about gaps is the
> fastest way...

Depends what you're using the ids for, but I'd recycle them when you need
to recycle, not immediately.

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