Re: PHP integer limit and Oracle 8i sequences

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Fred M. Bulah wrote: > > Hello, > I am using PHP 4 and Oracle 8i for a very large database and have a question > regarding the use of Oracle sequences as keys to tables and accessing those > tables by key. > > Oracle sequences are auto-generated integers whose upper limit is 10**38. > How large can a PHP 4 integer variable be? In "Professional PHP > Programming" it says that the range for integers is -2 billion to +2 > billion. This was version 3+. Has this changed? The obvious problem is > that when a sequence passes 2 billion, PHP 4 will not be able to handle the > primary key. > > Is this the case or is there a known workaround/solution? everything that comes back from oracle is a string by default! therefore you don't hit this problem. tc > > Note: php.net says that the max size is OS dependent. > I looked at snaps.php.net and couldn't find any information there. > > Thanks in advance. -- Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany