this may seem like a stupid question but when i declare a table field
in firebird as an integer, what is it internally by default? 64 or 32
bits? if 32 bits, how do i change that to 64 bits?

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Benade" <gary@...> wrote:
>
> Quote from http://www.fingerbird.de/generatorguide.htm
> >So if you would feed a column with a Dialect 3 Generator, and you
would
> >insert 1000 rows per second, it would take roundabout 300 million
>years
> >(!) before it rolls over. As it is pretty unlikely mankind will
still walk
> >on this planet by then (and still use Firebird databases), that's
nothing
> >to >be really worried about :-)
>
> They said the same thing when the decided on 512k ram! I bet in 300
million
> years some poor programmer maintaining a legacy banking app is going to
> google that and weep ;)
>