>
>
> > Is this necessarily a good solution? If you use 64-bit OIDs, some joker
> > will just hook up a several-terra-byte disk array to his machine, try to
> > store the location of every molecule in the universe and break it.
>
> If you have to have OIDs at all, its a lot better than a 32 bit
> Is this necessarily a good solution? If you use 64-bit OIDs, some joker
> will just hook up a several-terra-byte disk array to his machine, try to
> store the location of every molecule in the universe and break it.
If you have to have OIDs at all, its a lot better than a 32 bit number. I
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Andrew Snow wrote:
> > When we are sure all platforms support 64-bit int's, we
will move in
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Andrew Snow wrote:
> > When we are sure all platforms support 64-bit int's, we will move in
> > that direction.
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but couldn't you fairly easily make it
> an option at compile time? To use either 32 or 64 bit OID's.
> (And, less importan
>
> > When we are sure all platforms support 64-bit int's, we will move in
> > that direction.
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but couldn't you fairly easily make it
> an option at compile time? To use either 32 or 64 bit OID's.
> (And, less importantly, for sequences)
Well, we could bu
> When we are sure all platforms support 64-bit int's, we will move in
> that direction.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but couldn't you fairly easily make it
an option at compile time? To use either 32 or 64 bit OID's.
(And, less importantly, for sequences)
- Andrew
>
> > It feels like there should be some *really* obvious answer to this
> > question, and I'll find myself whacking my forehead in self-abasement
> > and out of sheer relief to have found the answer to a problem that
> > should not have bothered me in the first place since the answer is too
> >
Frank Joerdens wrote:
> It feels like there should be some *really* obvious answer to this
> question, and I'll find myself whacking my forehead in self-abasement
> and out of sheer relief to have found the answer to a problem that
> should not have bothered me in the first place since the answer
> It feels like there should be some *really* obvious answer to this
> question, and I'll find myself whacking my forehead in self-abasement
> and out of sheer relief to have found the answer to a problem that
> should not have bothered me in the first place since the answer is too
> self-evident
