From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
Cc: | KÖPFERL Robert <robert(dot)koepferl(at)sonorys(dot)at>, "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Column with recycled sequence value |
Date: | 2005-01-13 21:19:03 |
Message-ID: | 20050113211903.GA41687@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:48:47PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:08, KÖPFERL Robert wrote:
> > suppose I have a let's say heavy used table. There's a column containing
> > UNIQUE in4
> > values. The data type musn't exceed 32-Bit. Since however the table is heavy
> > used 2^32 will be reached soon and then? There are far less than 4G-records
> > saved thus these values may be reused. How can this be accomplished?
> >
> > I already defined a sequence but then?
>
> Redefine it as a bigserial?
That would violate the 32-bit requirement since bigserial would
make the field a bigint (64 bits). Or am I missing something?
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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