Re: problem wit hsequence as primary key

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 03:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob@zoism.org> writes:
> >     sequence_number := to_char(nextval(''location_seq''),''99999MI'');
>
> > The location_seq is up to 100005 at the moment so how am I getting
> > duplicate primary keys?
>
> Time for more 9's in that to_char format, perhaps?
>

Yeah :o)

I had a break and a cup o tea and then it was obvious...  Thanks


Now a nother question, useinga text based primary on large tables.  Will
this slow down queries or does it not really matter?

Thanks

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