Re: [GNUe-dev] gnue_id, extending the existing DB tables

[malek]

there's an other pb

xml-rpc don't support bigint (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec).

so you would have to convert to string anyway for the clients.

(i don't know about the other protocol supported soap, pyro...)

thanks,

lekma



Quoting Fehér János <address@hidden>:

> 2005-01-30, v keltezéssel 22.48-kor Reinhard Mueller ezt írta:
> > Am Sonntag, den 30.01.2005, 17:36 +0100 schrieb Fehér János:
> > > But first of all, I have question: why do you using string
> > > type for gnue_id in the database layer? It's not very efficient
> > > on most of the DBMS. They like integers for this, I really think
> > > 64bit unsigned integers are should be enough. What was the reason?
> > 
> > We have to select something that all databases support, and I'm
> > absolutely not sure all databases support 64 bit integers on all
> > platforms.
> 
> Oracle, SAPDB (MySQL MaxDB) can do it,
> MySQL has BIGINT 8 bytes column type.
> PostgreSQL has arbitrary precision numbers.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the others but I think they could do
> numerical solution.
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