About four five years ago, I had received a few of emails about the data type problems on this mailing list. I believe that the problem was about a performance issue. Is any problem withe the Long Integer type in the late releases? Thanks, - w -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general