On 23 Aug 2014, at 20:19, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a quick question for the people debating this issue:  Aside from the
> dispute over whether or not it's necessary / unimportant, are there any
> pressing reasons *not* to implement the changes that Pierre is advocating?
> I.e. would it break anything, waste a large amount of time, make the code
> harder to maintain, etc?  Or is it just that you don't think it's worth
> doing?

I can think of two:

1. It breaks most extensions out there, perhaps unnecessarily.

2. If bigints are implemented, we’d have to rename everything again.

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