Re: database design questions

Alban Hertroys wrote:
> Ottavio Campana wrote:
>
>>> CREATE TABLE person (
>>> id SERIAL,
>>> name TEXT
>>> );
>
>
>> how can I do it with a INT8 instead of a INT4?
>
>
> Do you really expect that sequence to reach over 2 billion? Otherwise
> I'd stick with the SERIAL, nothing wrong with that unless you're selling
> electrons seperately or something like that (hmm... how much are they? I
> sure could use a few extra).

I agree wih you, but I think that in the feature the could be more than
2 billions. I don't want to alter in the future the database

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