On Nov 22, 2006, at 6:23 PM, carter ck wrote:

Hi all,

I am wonderring if it is a good practice to use SERIAL index as primary key, as it is only available up to 9999999?

Where did you get that idea? A serial should be good up to at least 2,000,000,000 or so, and if that's not enough there's always bigserial.


Currently i am dealing with storing LDAP users into Postgres and i am looking for a better way to make use of the DN as primary key instead of SERIAL index.

Any advice or suggestion is appreciated.

If you want a synthetic primary key then a serial field is the easiest way to create one.

Cheers,
  Steve

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