[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql for 64-bit IDs

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    not long now and we'll have our nodes IDs exceed the magical 2^31-1 
limit, a time at which many applications will doubtless experience their 
own little version of the year 2000 problem ;)

I have modified osm2pgsql to support 64 bit IDs (int8/bigint on 
PostgreSQL). The modified version is a branch called osm2pgsql-64, in 
the same directory as the original osm2pgsql source code.

I didn't dare to simply commit my changes to osm2pgsql proper but in 
theory, if you don't set the OSMID64 compile flag, the new version 
should behave exactly as the old.

osm2pgsql used to make use of the "intarray" contrib module in slim 
mode, Since that module does not support the int8/bigint data type, I 
had to change things to use PostgreSQL's built-in array capabilites.

For reasons I do not fully understand, the intarray module is now 
actually harmful to this new version of osm2pgsql because it seems to 
keep the built-in array methods from using indexes. This means that 
while the old osm2pgsql required that you load _int.sql, the new 
osm2pgsql will actually complain if you have done that.

It would be great if a few people could test-drive the new osm2pgsql (in 
32 or 64 bit ID mode), and fix/report any bugs they might find. I hope 
that everything is fine, I made no major blunders, and we can soon 
replace the existing implementation with the no-intarray 64-bit-capable 
version.

Bye
Frederik