Bigint support

[Ajinkya1496]

I am using postgres 10 version, typeorm version 6.1.3 and pg version 7.11.0

I am facing issue with the bigint datatype. My entity looks like this.

@Entity({
  name:'users'
})
export class Users {
  @PrimaryGeneratedColumn()
  id: number;

  @Column()
  name: string;

  @Column()
  team_id: number;
}

Now when I convert team_id datatype to bigint it gives me error saying
Data type "BigInt" in "Users.team_id" is not supported by "postgres" database
Postgres supports bigint and now javascript also supports bigint datatype.

How do I use bigint here in the entity. Current behaviour is that it converts bigint to string and wherever in the database I am using team_id, it goes as string only.

Is there possible solution or alterations that I can do to fix this.

[vitaly-t]

This is the standard behavior, for all 64-bit integers to be presented as strings. See this explanation.

[Bessonov]

See brianc/node-pg-types#78

[vitaly-t]

@brianc This should probably be closed as a duplicate of #78.

[brianc]

Closing as dupe of brianc/node-pg-types#78