tj marlin wrote:
> you can postpone this problem for a very long time by using an unsigned
> bigint (0 - 2**64-1)
> note i said postpone, not eliminate.
Have you done calculations, how long it takes to reuse all id-s? I have
done :). I bet that auto_increment field will be still young, fresh and
alive even when this application is already dead after many years.
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