[gdal-dev] RFC 31 - OGR 64bit Support

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2010-11-27 13:17, geographika wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I understand it the only reason to use 64bit integers for IDs would 
> be for tables with more than 2 billion records (in the positive range).
> There is a related question on StackOverflow about this 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2124631/sql-server-int-or-bigint-database-table-ids 
>
> Are there really feature classes with this many records in existence?
Feature class:  Lidar Point  :-)

(Actually, I'm just agreeing with a previous post:   "Not a very long 
time ago some people thought that two numbers was enough to 
store...[anything]"

Z

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