Re: [vote] merge id-refactor branch changes

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Rahul Thakur wrote:
'int' ids are now converted to 'long' across the project and to allow 
really large values. This should cater to scenarios where the id 
generation could be started from an arbitrary large value.

Won't this break the API?

Yep, it would.


What is the use case where 4 billion IDs isn't sufficient?

2 billion you mean :-). But this also more of something that I have 
noticed  'traditionally' that ids are specified as long and stored as 
bigints in database

No, 4 billion. an int is +-2billion. Anyway, just because longs are more 
traditionally used that is not a good enough reason to switch to longs 
and break the API to me.

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Trygve