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... -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran http://aviewfromafar.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
