Rails Migration: Bigint on PostgreSQL seems to be failing?

Question

Trying to create a table with a bigint column creates a standard integer column instead. What could be going wrong? I don\'t know where to start looking.

I\'m using

Answer 1

For some reason the create table doesn't like bigint. You can, however do it with add_columm using the bigint data type:

add_column :table_name, :really_big_int, :bigint

Then you don't need that limit stuff.