Now store a 64-bit unsigned integer in Java. Or TypeScript. Or Lua. Or Python. Now explain why you need an unsigned bigint in this set-oriented language. What'

Now store a 64-bit unsigned integer in Java. Or TypeScript. Or Lua. Or Python. Now explain why you need an unsigned bigint in this set-oriented language. What's your use case? That said, not a limitation of SQL, just Postgres, who avoided it for similar maintenance and interoperability issues that Java avoided them. MySQL supports unsigned bigint just fine. There is nothing in the SQL spec that forbids unsigned integer values.