How do i handle uint64 beside using it as string?
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JinW
04/14/2022, 12:12 AMHow do i handle uint64 beside using it as string?
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Jason Bosco
04/14/2022, 12:13 AMTypesense does have an int64 data type. Unless you specifically meant unsigned int 64...
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JinW
04/14/2022, 12:13 AMYes, unsigned uint64
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Jason Bosco
04/14/2022, 12:14 AMStrings would be the only way at the moment, for integers larger than (signed) int64
Jason Bosco
04/14/2022, 12:15 AMCould you open a feature request on Github issues along with your use case for this?
Jason Bosco
04/14/2022, 12:16 AMOr another work-around I can think of is reducing the granularity/precision of the values so they fit in int64
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JinW
04/14/2022, 12:27 AMThanks, I was just making sure, We use uint64 for our primary id in our database and don't really have a use case for it.
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Harrison Burt
04/14/2022, 8:03 AMinteresting, what database? Normally they tend to be signed integer either explicitly or implicitly