Decimal() instead of float?
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Nov 16 09:07:35 EST 2006
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
>> Unfortunately some applications are getting such large tables that a
>> 32-bit field is insufficient to enumerate all existing and deleted
>> rows. Then you have to start keeping tables of unused primary keys.
>
> Please tell me that's not from some Kafka nightmare. They don't use
> 64-bit ints?
I don't believe SQL Server , for example, yet supports 64-bit identity
values. If it does, then the version that at least one Python user has
in use certainly doesn't.
regards
Steve
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