> > That's an excellent point, especially considering that *sequences* use
> > an integer to hold their max_value, which is by default 2,147,483,647.
> > You cannot go larger than that, either. I guess it's constrained to be
> > positive. So OIDs give you more potential unique values than seque
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Mitch Vincent wrote:
> >
> > There is something else that many aren't considering. In every application
> > I've ever written to use any database I use ID numbers of my own making,
> > always they're integer. 4 billion is the lim
Mitch Vincent wrote:
>
> There is something else that many aren't considering. In every application
> I've ever written to use any database I use ID numbers of my own making,
> always they're integer. 4 billion is the limit on any integer field, not
> just the OID so there are limitations everyo
