Thanks a lot AD. I will have a look to the mysql ref.
Yes i can have some tables with more records than a UINT_MAX. It's
very challenging, and if you ever heard about "credit check" you have
an idea about volume. I will be my first one using cake  (and first
one too).. (I cross fingers).

Thanks

On Jun 13, 6:47 pm, AD7six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 6:28 pm, francky06l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I am in a case study for a quite large/huge application and I love
> > cake. I am starting working on 1.2 now and I do not see any problem
> > having id's as BIGINT into the DB.
> > Am I right to think this knowing that I haven't made complex tests
> > neither loaded such volume that would required a bigint ?
>
> > Thanks
>
> If you are really going to have a table with more than 4294967295
> rows, they why not.
>
> an alternative I have seen before is to use a base62 (09A-Za-z)
> sequence for assigining primary keys, the equivalent of a maximum INT
> value would be "4gfFC3" (6chrs instead of 10).
>
> Don't think there is any significant advantage one way or the other,
> but I could be wrong ;).
>
> hth,
>
> AD
> PS. Yes, I assumed mysql if that makes a differnce 
> ref:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html


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