Re: 21 bit number for sequence

Actually what i want to do is store 100000000000000100000 as the maximum
value in sequence. Is there a way for it ?

Thanks,
Shoaib

On 4/15/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:24:59AM +0500, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > Right now Sequence by default uses bigint which supports upto 19bit
> numbers
> > but I want to use a 21bit that can be supported by NUMERIC datatype. Is
> > there any way I can sepcify while creating a sequence what datatype to
> use
> > or if I can specify to create sequence with numeric datatype?
>
> What do you mean by 19bit? Normal ints support upto 31 bits and bigints
> upto 2^63 positive numbers.
>
> Maybe you mean 19 *digit* numbers, which is about what a bigint can do.
> Well, that's more numbers than you're ever likely to generate so that
> question become: why do you need a sequence with that kind of range?
>
> Have a nice day,
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