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So they probably just need to use longs instead of ints. But I'm curious, if you were really stuck with a 32-bit limit on data types, what's your preferred workaround? I'm thinking I'd add another field that represents a partition. Are there other "tricks"?

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If you could only use 32-bit data types, you can get 64-bits from using 2 integers together like a long number. So the right integer would hit the max, start over at 0, and increment the left integer. Then, using this idea you can create a class of numbers that can have however many bits you want by using more ints.

Cool, yeah, that's what I meant by partitioning, which I guess is more of a database term.

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