Re: serial column

To some degree I don't care about the actual number other than roughly
following the device ID.

At some point later in the design the numbers will be updated to project
numbers and then frozen.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Klaver" <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Bob Pawley" <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] serial column

> On Sunday 24 September 2006 02:29 pm, Bob Pawley wrote:
>> Choice a.
>>
>> I am using the numbers to identify devices.
>>
>> If a device is deleted or replaced with another type of device I want the
>> numbering to still be sequential.
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Do you have some other way of tracking a device? I am just trying to
> figure
> out how you know which device number 2 (as an example) you are looking at.
> I
> am assuming these devices exist as actual entities. So are these numbers
> applied to the actual device and if so are you going to be constantly
> renumbering them?
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>