From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Raymond Pau <rpau@yahoo.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to make sequence skip existing key in table?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:07:21 -0800
Message-ID: <200302180907.21014.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030218100134.91784.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20030218100134.91784.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com>
Raymond,
> I am using sequence to generate to a list of unique
> key id that will be used as the primary key for some
> tables.
>
> My question is when the sequence wraps over to the
> minimum value(1), how can I ensure that the next id is
> not in the tables?
Do you really expect more than 2.4 billion rows?
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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