[sr-dev] [module permissions] "grp" to mediumint

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 5/24/11 12:52 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Hi, by inspecting the code it seems there is no problem if "grp" field
> in table "address" becomes "mediumint" rather than "smallint" (as
> now).
>
> In my case I use diferent intervals within "grp" value to determine
> the nature of the source IP of a request (requests from clients, from
> trusted nodes, from PSTN gateways...) so I need to change it to
> "mediumint" (and works well).
>
> Could it be changed in the database schema so no manual change would
> be required?

I think we should standardize on having 'int' everywhere, these variants 
of smaller ints are not that portable across databases.

In this case I am not sure what the structure inside the modules stores, 
but the database driver modules convert such ints to standard int.

Cheers,
Daniel