[18:25:59] Gnonthgol because people are lazy, and editors and such use negative numbers as objects not yet in the db
[18:26:00] AndrewBuck The difference is somewhat moot.  We will be at 2^32 in the near future anyway.
[18:26:02] balrog-k2n well in the osm2pgsql db's there are negative IDs used for relations for example
[18:26:18] balrog-k2n in other DBs you may want to have josm style negative IDs
[18:26:22] AndrewBuck So using unsigned would only buy us a bit of time, not solve the problem.
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[18:26:58] balrog-k2n plus i'm not sure if postgres actually has unsigned numeric types