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feature-request: support 64bit bigint

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, sqlite
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with the db.exec parameter-binding path shown in the issue and the result conversion path for SQLite integers. Compare the requested bigint input and preserveIntegerPrecision output examples with SQLite's integer behavior; done means both cases have agreed semantics and coverage for safe and unsafe integer values.

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Description

enhancement

not sure how feasible this feature-request is. sqlite3 docs say INTEGERS can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes.

is it possible to:

  1. input - allow 64-bit bigint as a param input? e.g.
db.exec({
    params: {
        "@bigint": 12345678901234567890n
    },
    sql: "SELECT @bigint"
});
  1. output - if integer > Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, then allow option to auto-coerce it to bigint? e.g.
db.exec({
    preserveIntegerPrecision: true,
    sql: "SELECT 1234 AS int, 1234567890123456789 AS bigint"
});
/*
{
    "results": [
        {
            "columns": [
                "int",
                "bigint"
            ],
            "values": [
                [
                    1234,
                    12345678901234567890123456789n
                ]
            ]
        }
    ]
}
 */
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