But in Python, isn't an int's size unlimited? I didn't think it was mapped to a platform int...
On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:19:20 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > It was motivated bit the need to support bigint ID fields. This is for > relational databases but, most importantly for non-relational ones. For > example in mongodb the ID is a long UUID so we must map that into a ID. It > comes up a long integer. > > Yet using int instead of long was a problem also when bigint is not used > in relational databases, in those cases where many records are added and > removed. The ID may grow much more than the number of records you store. > > Massimo > > On Friday, 21 June 2013 08:06:15 UTC-5, Richard wrote: >> >> As explain Simone in case of passing id to javascript it requires >> refactoring of app... Also it brake silently a javascript plugin integrated >> manually as a field widget (not a custom widget). I gues I should have a >> made some test to cover that, but I am still exploring how the best way to >> manage test in web2py. >> >> But, I don't understand (didn't read search the mailing-list) what was >> the motivation and the advantage of this change... Was it related to the >> bigint change talked about several month ago? It was suppose to be default >> to integer (what it was until now) and option in for bigint... >> >> Richard >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Alan Etkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think it is not in the change log and it is not acceptable.... >>>> >>> >>> Hi Richard. Why it is not acceptable? Did the change break a documented >>> feature? How? >>> >>> Perhaps you want to post an issue in the project page ( >>> code.google.com/p/web2py/issues). If you do, please post as much >>> information you have collected about the problem as you can including >>> source code, error tracebacks, OS, db and web2py version, DAL adapter name >>> and the section of the book with the documented feature that is not working. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
