On 28 Mar 2014, at 2:09pm, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> The current "burn rate" on the SQLite repository is about 3650 record IDs
> per year.  Let's assume 10x the burn rate.  Even then, it is another 58,000
> years or so before the 32-bit signed integer overflows.  At that burn rate
> it is 2.5e14 years before the 64-bit rowids run out and need to go
> negative, which is about 18,000 times the estimated current age of the
> universe.

When Homo Resciscus has personal devices hovering around them -- fetching and 
carrying, remembering appointments and singing them to sleep -- those devices 
be running SQLite somewhere inside themselves.  Maybe implemented using a 
dedicated area in a widely-used chipset like USB and Bluetooth are now.

Simon.
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