On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew@stsci.edu> wrote:
>> (For comparison, mysql uses an unsigned 64 bit value for auto increment and
>> chokes when it runs out. sqlite wraps, but it automatically finds a new key
>> value that is not used.)
>
> Please, read the fine manual: PostgreSQL has a 64 bit bigserial data type too.
In addition, if you absolutely have to have the full 64 bit range, you
can set the starting value of the sequence to -9223372036854775808.
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Thanks,
David Blewett