Re: SERIAL datatype

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Mark Roberts
<mailing_lists@pandapocket.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:53 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> Regular SERIAL type is limited to a 32 bit int.  BIGSERIAL uses a 64
>> bit int.
>
> I think one of the things that would be offsetting is the size
> difference between the two types (32 vs 64 bits, 5 foreign keys, and a
> billion rows or so makes for alot of pain).

Well, of course a 64 bit int is gonna be bigger than a 32 bit, but
with alignment issues and on 64 bit hardware, I'm guessing the
difference isn't exactly twice as slow / twice as much storage.  And
it's way faster than a GUID which was what I think started this
thread.