[OSM-dev] Exhaustion of 32bit signed integer range expected this year

[David Earl]

On 13/04/2012 15:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> This means that it is likely that by the end of 2012, we will have
> reached (or be very close to reaching) the end of the 32bit "signed
> integer" range (2.15 billion, or 2^31-1).

Thanks for the reminder. I was a bit worried about this having coded a 
lot of stuff in PHP. I now realise that so long as it is running on 
64-bit hardware, PHP uses 64-bit ints, But is is an issue for people 
running PHP utilities on 32-bit hardware, who would have to either move 
or treat the IDs as strings.

David