Thanks for the advice.

On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 16:09, Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote:

> On 03.05.24 12:57, Muhammad Ikram wrote:
> > Tables which have an identity column in Oracle when migrated to
> > PostgreSQL, the data type of Identity column is changed to bigint from
> > number by the tools. This causes the size of column to be reduced to max
> > value supported by bigint which is way lower than the oracle  number max.
>
> Sequences in PostgreSQL are limited to bigint, there is nothing that can
> be changed about that.  But you are approximately the first person to
> complain that the range of ids provided by bigint is too small, so maybe
> it's worth reconsidering whether it would work for you.  If it really is
> too small, maybe a uuid would work.  But yes, you'll need to make some
> adjustments to the rest of your database or application code if you make
> such changes.
>
>

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