Rails 5.1: Default Primary Keys Are Now BIGINT

• 09/12/2016
• 3.120

Remember the Twitpocalypse? Back in 2009, Twitter ran out of Integers. Like most of us, they set up the primary key in their tweets table to be a 32-bit signed integer. Once they hit the magical number (2,147,483,647), servers were all but guaranteed to catch fire in the most spectacular fashion.

• Rails
• 5.1:
• Default
• Primary
• Keys
• Are
• Now
• BIGINT

Nezir Zahirovic

Contractor Ruby On Rails (8+ years) / MCPD .Net / C# / Asp.Net / CSS / SQL / (11 years)

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