At Flaptor we use a CharField(max_length=20) which is big enough and seems reasonable since it is usually obtained from and used in urls. If you're interested in having a sorted index with the ids then you would have to look into bigger integer data types or add 0 padding behavior to your field.
Regards, Santiago On Dec 3, 4:06 am, Jay Liew <jays...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe I've just hit the upper bound limit on Django's > PositiveIntegerField for storing a single tweet's ID # > > What is the recommendation (if there is one), for application > developers in planning to store this field? > > Store it in a bigger integer data type .. or just maybe store the ID > as a var char? > > Thanks,
