i know it is large. the user must do his own calculations to determine if
he can substitute eliminate for postpone.
this is his call; not mine nor yours.
At 09:57 AM 7/8/01 +0307, you wrote:
>tj marlin wrote:
>
>
>>you can postpone this problem for a very long time by using an unsigned
>>bigint (0 - 2**64-1)
>>note i said postpone, not eliminate.
>
>Have you done calculations, how long it takes to reuse all id-s? I have
>done :). I bet that auto_increment field will be still young, fresh and
>alive even when this application is already dead after many years.
>
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