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Re: MAX on UNSIGNED INT Column

From: Paul DuBois (paulmysql.com)
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 14:23:16 CDT


At 12:17 -0700 7/5/05, Jacob S. Barrett wrote:
>I have a column of type UNSIGNED INT which holds a 32bit counter. When the
>value of the field exceeds 2147483647 (signed max) the value of MAX on the
>column returns a negative number. If I convert the column to BIGINT the
>correct MAX is returned. Is this expected behavior, am I doing something
>wrong, is this a bug? I would rather not store a 32bit counter as a 64bit
>value, but I need the MAX function to work so in the mean time I will convert
>all these fields to BIGINT.

Please report a repeatable test case to http://bugs.mysql.com. Thanks.

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