On 18/02/2008 13:14, pgsql_user wrote:
so wouldnt I run out of ids one day, if there are lot of failed insert
statements, lets say for every successful insert there are 50
unsuccessful inserts, so ids would be 1, 50, 100, and once I have
thousands of rows, I will run out of IDs ? should I use bigserial
instead ?

Well, that depends on your usage, so only you can answer that. According to the docs, "serial" creates an integer column, which will give you 2147483647 values - how quickly will you use that lot up? If you think you will run out, by all means use bigserial.

Ray.

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