Am Friday, 15. August 2008 schrieb Grigory Zinin:
> We can create SERIAL field. But INTEGER type will be really set. It's well
> known that INTEGER field doesn't match values more than 4 bytes. But
> related SEQUENCE object has a 8 byte value.
> It looks strange for me that 4 bytes of these 8 byte value will never be
> used.
> Is it bug or feature?
Well, it is that way by design, because most people will want the faster int4
type for their key fields. If you want a bigger type, you have of course
bigserial available.