On 27 Jul 2009, at 22:30, Jonathan Stott wrote:

> There are eventual plans to have DataMapper auto-intuit things like  
> the need for big int etc, from the limits placed on the property.

Can you elaborate?  What is the plan so far, that an integer with a  
maximum >= 2^31-1 would be considerent a bigint?

Is this assuming auto-migrations?  Personally I'm a pretty staunch  
manual migration user, so the main thing is easy migration  
definition.  Actually, I'm starting to wonder if there's generally a  
need for 32-bit ints in databases any more.  Unless you're storing  
large volume numerical data*, it seems like more of an inconvenience  
than anything.

Ashley

* and I need to check what word size Postgres aligns on...

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