| From: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)tincan(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Notes about int8 sequences |
| Date: | 2001-08-07 06:20:25 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20010807142025.00934380@192.228.128.13 |
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At 07:02 PM 06-08-2001 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>pseudo-type should generate an int8 instead of int4 column. On
>compatibility grounds, it might be better to leave it generating int4,
>and invent a second pseudo-type SERIAL8 that is just the same except
>for making an int8 column. I'm more worried about changing the datatype
>of a user column than I am about changing the output type of nextval(),
>so I'd be sort of inclined to have two SERIAL types even if we change
>nextval() to int8. Thoughts?
serial8 sounds ok to me.
I use currval.
Cheerio,
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