Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: Jim C(dot)Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit
Date: 2005-10-11 06:29:22
Message-ID: 4388A7D9-C975-4DFD-8252-34AD6E5594D0@myrealbox.com
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On Oct 11, 2005, at 15:12 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Out of curiosity... why don't we have unsigned ints? I for one would
> certainly use them for id fields, as well as some other places where I
> knew negative numbers weren't valid.

Check the archives. I know this has come up a number of times in the
past, but don't recall the reasons off the top of my head.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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