RES: < Int4 - limit >

From: Shay Moreno <moreno(at)tdk(dot)dk>
To: "'phpa'" <abe(at)fish(dot)tm>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RES: < Int4 - limit >
Date: 2001-04-18 11:46:12
Message-ID: 5D38890DAE46D41186A800508B6F7187026FFD73@oestmb010-b0.tdk.dk
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> I have built a small application which has a table for unique identifiers
with a column of type int4.
>
> This has one added to it each time a new key is required. I am a little
worried that at some point when the limit
> of int4 is reached the system will fall over. Is this the case or is
there a work around.

Shouldn't you just use a sequence for that? Or recreate your table
with a bigger data type?

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