Our internal implementation of sequences uses longs for everything, so
you will need to use values for start/stop/cycle/increment that fit
into a long value.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Gili <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two clarifications:
>
> I am using version 1.3.176.
> This behavior contradicts the documentation:
> http://www.h2database.com/html/datatypes.html#bigint_type
>
> Please also take this opportunity to clarify the difference between IDENTITY
> and BIGINT in the documentation. As far as I understand it, IDENTITY is
> equivalent to "BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY" but it's not clear if
> there are any other differences. For example, the documentation reads "Used
> values are never re-used, even when the transaction is rolled back" for
> IDENTITY but not for BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT so it's not clear if there is
> some magic under the hood.
>
> Gili
>
> On Friday, August 29, 2014 4:53:16 PM UTC-4, Gili wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I run:
>>
>>   CREATE TABLE connection (id BIGINT AUTO_INCREMENT(-9223372036854775808,
>> 1) PRIMARY KEY);
>>
>> I get:
>>
>>   Syntax error in SQL statement "CREATE TABLE CONNECTION (ID BIGINT
>> AUTO_INCREMENT(-9223372036854775808[*], 1) PRIMARY KEY)"; expected "long"
>>
>> I've successfully initialized all other types at their minimum values.
>> BIGINT seems to be the only type that has a problem with this.
>>
>> Gili
>
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