Comments on: A satisfying bug fix. https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/03/a-satisfying-bug-fix/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/03/a-satisfying-bug-fix/#comment-18155 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:20:17 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=4029#comment-18155 IDs should never be signed either. Why would you want a negative number as an ID? changing the field to unsigned smallint would have doubled the capacity without increasing memory usage.

]]> By: Alan https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/03/a-satisfying-bug-fix/#comment-18154 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:51:47 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=4029#comment-18154 In reply to Andrew.

Nope, it wasn’t WordPress… Although they do use numbers as ID’s.

Al.

]]> By: Andrew https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/03/a-satisfying-bug-fix/#comment-18153 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:43:45 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=4029#comment-18153 The moral is to never use a number as an ID. Is that WordPress? They should know better!

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