Re: 21 bit number for sequence

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:24:59AM +0500, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> Right now Sequence by default uses bigint which supports upto 19bit numbers
> but I want to use a 21bit that can be supported by NUMERIC datatype. Is
> there any way I can sepcify while creating a sequence what datatype to use
> or if I can specify to create sequence with numeric datatype?

What do you mean by 19bit? Normal ints support upto 31 bits and bigints
upto 2^63 positive numbers.

Maybe you mean 19 *digit* numbers, which is about what a bigint can do.
Well, that's more numbers than you're ever likely to generate so that
question become: why do you need a sequence with that kind of range?

Have a nice day,
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