[Rails] Re: Re: Growing beyond unsigned integer for the id field

[Neil Dugan]

Peter wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, hope you got that coffee ;)
> 
> I see the logic in your explanation of BigInt. Do most database support 
> 8 byte unsigned integers? Or is it particular to MySQL.
> 
Postgresql has a bigint.

> Im sure I read somewhere that BaseCamp uses a custom writtern id 
> incrementer, how can they have out grown a BigInt?
> 
> Many thanks, P.
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