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What if my nid reaches the maximum allowed value of MySql int type

I have made a drupal.org site search that ends up Here. And also i found Integer Types (Exact Value). In an app that i am about to build is a contact manager for students. Which is supposed to pull gmail, fb contacts in future. My plan is to make each contact a node. Is it a good idea to keep each contact as separate node? Can you suggest any other brilliant mechanism to handle this?

I am worried about the overflow of nid as i made a test run using may own gmail id, which ends up in a 1025 new nodes.

I am using typical Drupal 7.14 installation.

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    I checked to see that nid in node table is of type int(10). That means we can have 10! number of nodes. I don't think that your requirement might extend that value...
    – AjitS
    May 30, 2012 at 10:46
  • @indrock 10! number of nodes means ? 10K ?
    – niksmac
    May 30, 2012 at 10:47
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    According to my Mac's calculator 10! = 3,628,800
    – Clive ♦
    May 30, 2012 at 11:00
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    @NikhilMohan : look for my comment above :-) Actually for normal int type, you'll have values from 0 to 2^32 − 1 or 4294967295 that is something above 4 billion. I'm doubtful that your database would go beyond that.
    – AjitS
    May 30, 2012 at 12:57
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    See here : max unsigned int is 4,294,967,295. No need for complicated maths : just RTFM :D.
    – Countzero
    May 30, 2012 at 13:21

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If nid reaches the maximum your site will no longer be able to create new nodes as there will be SQL errors whenever Drupal tries to insert a new nid.

Chances are though, that drupal.org will hit this limit before you do, regardless of what you're doing to your site in any useful real-world application.

If drupal.org gets anywhere close to 4 billion nodes, there definitely will be a workaround readily available for you.

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