Question

I just can’t understand why is my database (mysql) behaving like this! My console shows that the record is created properly (please, notice the “remote_id” value):

Tweet Create (0.3ms)

INSERT INTO `tweets` (`remote_id`, `text`, `user_id`, `twitter_account_id`)
              VALUES (12325438258, 'jamaica', 1, 1)

But when I check the record, it shows that the remote_id is 2147483647 intead of the provided value (12325438258 in the example above)…

This table has many entries, but this field is always written with 2147483647… It was supposed to fill this space with an unique id (which I guarantee you is being generated properly).

Answer 1

That’s because you’re using the INT numeric type which has a limit of '2147483647', use BIGINT instead.

Source: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html