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Madison Kelly <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>    I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
>    likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
>    wondering, what happens when the serial value reaches
>    2,147,483,647'? Does it roll back over to '1' and keep going or
>    will the database start erroring out? This isn't likely to be a
>    problem any time soon, but over the course of a year or more it
>    might be.

Use a "bigserial" instead?

-Doug

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