I am/was using it to store bigints in it. At work I was working with
10 decimals... Which is just too long for an unsigned int. Though they
could fit in an unsigned long it... Which I did... But a long long
would come more close to the meaning of a bigint.
For my case it's solved ;-).
Greetz
On 21/04/2008, Warren Young <mysqlpp@stripped> wrote:
> Steven Van Ingelgem wrote:
>
> > That was for v3.0.1 & v3.0.0...
> >
>
> Oh. In that case, try switching to one of the new types defined in
> lib/sql_types.h. my_ulonglong is a MySQL specific type, used for its own C
> API, not really something meant to map to the SQL type system. Its meaning
> changes depending on the platform, not a desirable behavior, which is
> probably why I removed support for it.
>
> If you still feel MySQL++ needs to support something compatible with
> my_ulonglong, I'll need a SQL-oriented justification. The current data type
> handling system is pretty hairy -- less so in 3.x, but still hairy -- and
> adding support to it for every arbitrary data type has to be done by hand,
> increasing the code's hirsuteness. To justify that, I need a case where
> useful SQL can't be done without this type.
>
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