Re: Inserts wrong value into BIGINT UNSIGNED

[Michael Widenius]

>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Moore <lrmoore@stripped> writes:

Rick> Thanks.  Not really a problem for me; just wanted to let you know.  Didn't
Rick> notice it in the manual until after Bob was kind enough to direct me to the
Rick> known issues section.

Rick> The manual says to only use 63 bit BIGINTs, but I've noticed that even some
Rick> 63 bit BIGINTs have problems, too.  I assume this is the same bug...

Rick> Rick

What kind of 63 big bigints and when?   In some context a bigint
may be automaticly converted to a double and in this case you will get 
an rounding error, but this shouldn't happen that often...

Regards,
Monty