The folks at IC&S coded for 64-bit id numbers very early on. *shrug* Never considered it to be a problem. Why would it be a severe penalty?
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 02:53 +0200, Marc Dirix wrote: > Also for mailbox_idnr, same question. > > > Op 5-aug-2007, om 2:41 heeft Marc Dirix het volgende geschreven: > > > I was wondering.... > > > > Why do you use a INT8 for user_idnr/owner_idnr? > > Isn't this a severe performance penalty for small installs? > > The only usecase I can think of is where 1 database is used for > > over 2000 million users? > > > > > > Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev _______________________________________________ Dbmail-dev mailing list [email protected] http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev
