[OSM-dev] negative segment id in planet.osm? planet-061205.osm

Andreas Brauchli linux at elementarea.net
Wed Dec 13 15:08:20 GMT 2006


i guess you have to include the hidden ("deleted") seg's, too.. but
still sounds quite high a number to me :/

..it was just an idea, since if the table is marked UNSIGNED, then there
can't possibly be any negative numbers except by treating it as SIGNED..

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 14:51 +0100, raphael Jacquot wrote:
> Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> > isn't the table marked unsigned? in this case there'd be a displaying
> > error: in binary the bit 0 (first bit) is used to set the sign, if the
> > number grew over the "positive"-range, then it may be incorrecty
> > displayed as negative even if it's a positive number..
> 
> shouldn't the IDs be 64 bits unsigned integers ?
> did we already pass the 2 Billion segments created ? or is this yet 
> another wierd mysql issue ?
> </troll>





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