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		wisty on June 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visa Systems Issues Maybe there are 2,147,483,647 rows are in a table with the id signed int32? 2 billion isn't such a big number.

raphman_ on June 22, 2015 [–]

Hmm, given they already had 'billions of rows' [1] (though probably distributed across many tables), they might have been wise enough to plan for this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9756534

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