[Kamailio-Devel] RFC: big int support in core and db modules

[Henning Westerholt]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Henning Westerholt wrote:
> i just commited an initial support for reading and writing BIGINT values (8
> byte integer) to the core and the three SQL based DB modules. The other
> database access modules don't have support for this at the moment, as i
> don't use them at all. I don't want to move our some core tables to this
> type, support for this is merely useful to be able to query bigger custom
> tables.
>
> I want to ask if there is any interest also enabling this for the other DB
> modules? Perhaps this don't make much sense, or is not possible because of
> library constraints?
>
> If this is also wanted for the other databases, help with testing and also
> implementation would be appreciated. If there is no huge interest, an
> alternative would be to just map this to normal integers as fallback.
> Another issue that needs to be discussed how we handle this with
> avp_db_query|load(), as normal AVPs are only 32 bit.

Ok, i disabled the big integer support for now in the respective modules, as i 
don't want to introduce bugs in them. If there is interest, this should be 
not that hard to implement later  (if the underlying library support this).

Cheers,

Henning