On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:11, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 June 2010 17:46, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Postgres ignores them, IIRC, since it doesn't have such a concept. I'm >> sure one day some numbers will get too big for mysql, but hey. > > Doesn't MySQL support BigInt (64bit) and UUID (128bit) numbers?
Yes, but it generally handles larger types much worse than real databases. E.g. you can't have an index for a TEXT, but you can index VARCHAR(255) on InnoDB. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
