Re: Sequence id NOT incremented as expected

From: SINGHAL Harsh <harsh(dot)singhal(at)cy-play(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sequence id NOT incremented as expected
Date: 2012-07-20 14:18:20
Message-ID: 500968AC.80404@cy-play.com
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Thanks a lot, Tom.

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Harsh Raj SINGHAL
Cy-Play

On 20/07/12 16:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> SINGHAL Harsh <harsh(dot)singhal(at)cy-play(dot)com> writes:
>> * In an increasing sequence whose max value is set to
>> 9223372036854775807 and cycle option is activated, as shown above,
>> from 2147483647 to 9223372036854775807 it is displaying error
>> "ERREUR: entier en dehors des limites" and after that it resets it
>> to 1 which is normal for any sequence whose cycle option is activated.
> You didn't show us any context here, but this sounds like you're trying
> to store the sequence's result into a integer (not bigint) column.
> If so, that's not a bug, it's just pilot error.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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