Re: oids vs. serial question

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:20:43PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > as far as I understood the thing, take OIDs as 'internal' (they are
> > > unique all over all databases) and do not use them to organize your
> > > data.
> >
> > I think that sums it up nicely.
> >
> > > Is SERIAL still INT4 in v7.2?
> >
> > Yes, but there's now a BIGSERIAL (or SERIAL8 if you prefer).
>
> OH COOL!!!!  Very useful!  Is that in the ever famous, "7.2 docs" that
> are still pending release?  ::hint hint::  -sc


http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL



- Andrew