On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:20:13 -0400
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have some tables that continually collect statistics, and then over time 
> > are
> > pruned as the stats are aggregated into more useful formats. 
> > 
> > For some of these tables, it it is fore-seeable that the associated 
> > sequences
> > would be incremented past the max value of the "int" type in the normal 
> > course
> > of things. 
> > 
> > I see two options to prepare for that:
> 
> 3. Deal with wraparound by ensuring that the applications behave sanely

Wrap-around?  

Exceeding the max size of "int" looks more like a brick wall than wrap-around 
to me:

 insert into t values (2147483648);
 ERROR:  integer out of range

    Mark

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