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Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key?

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> > "" 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"?  

oops,  when I copied that text from the 8.2 docs I didn't catch that format error.

231 should read 2^31.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.



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