Anyone storing Facebook IDs will hit that limit, so as a PostgreSQL shop 
developing lots of FB apps, we can't wait for this to be released.

Should have some test results on Monday


On Friday, 27 April 2012 04:40:06 UTC+10, villas wrote:
>
> Thinking more about this,  an INTEGER will generally store over 2 billion 
> records.  Is the reason for updating to BIGINT due to someone having hit 
> that limit?  
>
> An inner voice is saying:  "Can't the person who has breached that limit 
> be asked to create his own tables instead of giving all the rest of us the 
> inconvenience?".  I shall now replace my tin-foil hat.
>

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