[rt-users] Ticket ID as CHAR(32)?

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Tue Jun 30 17:46:45 EDT 2009


> Are you aware of anywhere that the code does anything with that ticket
> ID other than pass it around?  I haven't yet (but haven't done deep
> digging) seen it being used for anything other than in the queries
> themselves and displayed on the web UI and emails.  My change from
> signed int(11) to unsigned int hasn't seemed to cause any trouble thus
> far.  I'm willing to do the work if it doesn't seem unreasonable to
> want this.

Yep. Transactions, Custom Fields, Ticket Linking are the first three big
things.   We never use negative numbers, so switching from signed to
unsigned is safe.  When you start making your mods, you'll want to make
sure you're running the test suite.



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