alt Hacker News> bigints are smaller and faster, with less footguns
But be careful!! Javascript WILL interpret your bigints as Number() and round them down because they are too big without telling you!!!
Famously seen by every snowflake user that has interacted with Javascript, quite an annoying problem.
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paulddraper • today at 3:10 AM
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Node.js drivers will correctly read int64 as string or bigint, not number.
E.g. pg for PostgreSQL
Maybe there’s a buggy driver but I don’t know it.
Fortunately we're seeing more JS DB libraries offering to read large numbers as the BigInt type.