[RFC] - mysql-native rewrite

[Gary Willoughby]

On Monday, 30 September 2013 at 12:05:49 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> I'll just add a hack for TINYINT(1) -> bool and keep everything 
> else MySQL specific.

Please don't. The db library should only return what mysql 
returns. Let the next layer handle casting types.

> Have to admit that int32 has been plenty for me in the past. 
> Never worked on databases with > 200M rows.

I routinely use db's with enormous datasets 500M+ and use BIGINTS 
a lot. If i select a BIGINT column i'd expect a long back.