| From: | David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> |
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| To: | Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew(at)stsci(dot)edu>, psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: portable DBAPI auto-increment |
| Date: | 2011-04-08 17:04:46 |
| Message-ID: | BANLkTinvuN-q1UeCYTwMyVKdgE1ByGtM8g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew(at)stsci(dot)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
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