The folks at IC&S coded for 64-bit id numbers very early on. *shrug*
Never considered it to be a problem. Why would it be a severe penalty?

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 02:53 +0200, Marc Dirix wrote:
> Also for mailbox_idnr, same question.
> 
> 
> Op 5-aug-2007, om 2:41 heeft Marc Dirix het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > I was wondering....
> >
> > Why do you use a INT8 for user_idnr/owner_idnr?
> > Isn't this a severe performance penalty for small installs?
> > The only usecase I can think of is where 1 database is used for  
> > over 2000 million users?
> >
> >
> > Marc
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