Re: 21 bit number for sequence

Actually that is the application requirment to use 21 bit numbers as porting
it from Oracle where it used to work.

Yeah now i have decided to use a numeric data type in a table and use that
to write my own nextval and currval functions for that purpose.

Thanks for the help.

/Shoaib

On 4/15/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:52:49PM +0500, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > Actually what i want to do is store 100000000000000100000 as the maximum
> > value in sequence. Is there a way for it ?
>
> Is that number in binary or decimal? In binary it's easy because it's
> only 1048608 decimal. In decimal it would require 66 bits, which
> doesn't fit. The is still: why do you want a *sequence* to go that
> high? A sequence starts counting a 1 and goes up until the limit. At
> one count per second you'd take several million million years to get
> though. Bigint indeed only goes upto 9223372036854775807.
>
> If you just want to store numbers, use numeric. Why do you want to
> combine numeric and a sequence?
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