On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:23 PM, flow a. crash <flowandcr...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Mr. Hipp,
>
> First, I want to thank you for creating such valuable software as SQLite.
>
> After reading through the sources, I see the type for rowid/integer
> primary key is int64_t. May I ask why you didn't go with uint64_t? It
> would allow for more rows before wrapping, and I can't foresee a use
> for a signed row id.
>

Zero and negative rowids work fine.

Also even with a signed rowid and if you keep all rowids positive, you can
still insert 1,000,000,000 rows per second continuously for 292 years before
you run out.


>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> Kind regards,
> Kelly
>



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D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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