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OID is auto-incrementing integer value, unique within a PostgreSQL database (not just a table) that can be automatically assigned to each row of a table created WITH OIDS option. Although OID can be used as an identity (auto-increment) primary key column, it is recommended to use SERIAL data type instead. For more information, see Generating IDs in PostgreSQL. SQL Server 2012 introduced Sequence Object, and since beginning SERIAL/BIGSERIAL (Sequence Object) are available in PostgreSQL. The new IDENTITY Type Column is used to generate an automatic number. Now, we have this great feature, and creating an auto-increment column is also very simple.

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I did some research but can't find the exact answer that I look for. Currently I have a primary key column 'id' which is set to serial but I want to change it to bigserial to map to Long in Java layer. What is the best way to achieve this considering this is a existing table? I think my Postgres version is 10.5. Also I am aware that both serial and bigserial are not a data type.

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In Postgres 9.6 or earlier the sequence created by a serial column already returns bigint. You can check this using psql:

So you should only alter the type of the serial column:

The behavior has changed in Postgres 10:

Also, sequences created for SERIAL columns now generate positive 32-bit wide values, whereas previous versions generated 64-bit wide values. This has no visible effect if the values are only stored in a column.

Hence in Postgres 10+:

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i'm new to postgres.if in sqlserver we have a table with auto-increment, and 10 rows.. and the last row have id = 10.when you delete the last row, the next you insert will get the id = 10 too.. sure?

but in postgres, using bigserial as pk, when i delete the row with the max Id, and insert a new row, it keeps incrementing more and more the pk number.

this is right?

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That's right. Read the manual about sequences.

bigserial and serial are just notational convenience for creating a bigint / integer column with the default set to nextval() from a connected sequence.

And it needs to be that way for safe concurrent use.

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