Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "" The type names serial and serial4 are equivalent: both create integer > columns. The type names bigserial and serial8 work just the same way, except > that they create a bigint column. bigserial should be used if you anticipate > the use of more than 231 identifiers over the lifetime of the table. "" > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL What would be those "231 identifiers"? -- Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@xxxxxxxxx>