> > "" 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.