Quoting eugenio <[email protected]>: > i noticed that rails create signed int(11) for id fields (i'm using > mysql, i don't know if it acts like this with different databases). > i think that unsigned is better for primary keys (and foreign keys). > Is there an easy way to indicate that in a migration? > This comes up occassionally. The current answer is no. My quess is that not all supported databases support unsigned. There is a way to create an unsigned int column (that I've forgotten) but it isn't carried over to the test database. So you can used unsigned ints, just cant' test the upper half of the values.
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