I'd say there's a good reason to store it as a number, if I want to be able to sort on that
field. But, even if you could make the case that this particular value should be stored as
a string, shouldn't we be able to expect data stored as an integer to be able to be retrieved
accurately?
Mike
On May 11, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jarrod Roberson <jarrod@vertigrated.com>wrote:
>
>> this is a know issue with I reported here
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-749
>> it has something to do with JavaScript precision with Numbers.
>>
>> my solution was to just persist everything as strings and then convert back
> to the appropriate number type in my non-JavaScript client code. There is
> really no reason to store numerical ids as numbers anyway, it isn't like you
> are doing math on them on the server side.
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