On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:19:29PM +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > so with serial there are only 2.147.483.648 possible recordnumbers. Actually 2147483647 using the default sequence start value of 1 and going up to 2^31 - 1, the largest positive value a 32-bit integer can hold. You could get the full 32-bit range (4294967296) by allowing negative numbers and setting the sequence's MINVALUE and RESTART value to -2^31 (-2147483648). > Which should still be enough for "millions of records" Correct. -- Michael Fuhr