I've set up a table accordingly:
CREATE TABLE raw (
id SERIAL,
regtime float NOT NULL,
time float NOT NULL,
source varchar(15),
sourceport INTEGER,
destination varchar(15),
destport INTEGER,
blocked boolean
); ... + index and grants
I've successfully used this table for a while now, and all of a sudden the following insert doesn't work any longer..
INSERT INTO raw(
time, regtime, blocked, destport, sourceport, source, destination
) VALUES (
1403184512.2283964, 1403184662.118, False, 2, 3, '192.168.0.1', '192.168.0.2'
);
The error is: ERROR: integer out of range
Not even sure where to begin debugging this.. I'm not out of disk-space and the error itself is kinda discreet.
1 Answer
SERIAL columns are stored as INTEGERs, giving them a maximum value of 231-1. So after ~2 billion inserts, your new id values will no longer fit.
If you expect this many inserts over the life of your table, create it with a BIGSERIAL (internally a BIGINT, with a maximum of 263-1).
If you discover later on that a SERIAL isn't big enough, you can increase the size of an existing field with:
ALTER TABLE raw ALTER COLUMN id TYPE BIGINT;
Note that it's BIGINT here, rather than BIGSERIAL (as serials aren't real types). And keep in mind that, if you actually have 2 billion records in your table, this might take a little while...
