Serial Jumping

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Subject: Serial Jumping
Date: 2009-01-27 04:55:48
Message-ID: 20090127055548.bpcc4i3hcgs00sco@webmail.shepherdhill.biz
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Hi,

I have a table with BIG SERIAL field as Primary KEY. During high load,
entries in the BIG SERIAL field are jumped. One could see a row with
1367 and expecting the next INSERT to be 1368, one would end up
getting 1369.

Please is this normal?

Regards,
Chris

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