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Re: First decent PostgreSQL CBT now on techdocs .postgresql.org

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: wsheldah@lexmark.com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-12-28T18:38:17Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
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> 
> Looks like someone could take advantage of the broader range of sequence values,
> but only if they explicitly created their column as int8 with the default set to
> nextval('the_sequence').
> 
> Should the serial datatype be changed to create an int8, or a new serial8
> datatype created that does this??

Tom says we have a new SERIAL8 data type for this.  I see it in the
HISTORY file now.

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