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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2014-08-18 01:17:49 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2014-08-18 01:18:18 -0400
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Fix obsolete mention of non-int64 support in CREATE SEQUENCE documentation.
The old text explained what happened if we didn't have working int64 arithmetic. Since that case has been explicitly rejected by configure since 8.4.3, documenting it in the 9.x branches can only produce confusion.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/create_sequence.sgml5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_sequence.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_sequence.sgml
index 367f440b6cb..68c45997b29 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_sequence.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_sequence.sgml
@@ -224,10 +224,7 @@ SELECT * FROM <replaceable>name</replaceable>;
<para>
Sequences are based on <type>bigint</> arithmetic, so the range
cannot exceed the range of an eight-byte integer
- (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807). On some older
- platforms, there might be no compiler support for eight-byte
- integers, in which case sequences use regular <type>integer</>
- arithmetic (range -2147483648 to +2147483647).
+ (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807).
</para>
<para>