Re: oids vs. serial question

From: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
To: Gregory Wood <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com>
Cc: knut(dot)suebert(at)web(dot)de, PostgreSQL-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: oids vs. serial question
Date: 2002-03-05 05:20:43
Message-ID: 20020304212043.K58596@ninja1.internal
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> > as far as I understood the thing, take OIDs as 'internal' (they are
> > unique all over all databases) and do not use them to organize your
> > data.
>
> I think that sums it up nicely.
>
> > Is SERIAL still INT4 in v7.2?
>
> Yes, but there's now a BIGSERIAL (or SERIAL8 if you prefer).

OH COOL!!!! Very useful! Is that in the ever famous, "7.2 docs" that
are still pending release? ::hint hint:: -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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