Hi!
On Jul 12, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
Remove support for 64 bit unsigned type... It would remove a bunch
of special-case handling..
If you want to support 64bit unsigned, consider adding in support
for 128bit signed type (HUGEINT?).
128bit number could just be a UUID. This came up as a topic last night
at a party I was at. There has been some talk about restructuring the
class a bit, and I believe when I get around to that, I will go on and
add this type. I also want to benchmark our UUID() generator vs the
one shipped with Linux/OSX. From what I am hearing it is much slower
then the daemon based one that comes on the system.
By making the largest integer type signed, you can then handle all
unsigned types smaller than it by simple masking and then you also
don't need to carry around an extra signed/unsigned flag for special
case processing like we must for unsigned bigints in mysqld today.
Yep, we are of similar minds on this. To me SIGNED/UNSIGNED is really
just a constraint anyways.
Cheers,
-Brian
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