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Consider adding a `Value` type for `u8` and `u128`.
This is a bit of a hole/omission.
I was aiming for simplicity when I defined the set of types, and was also following Mentat's type system, which was definitely aimed at higher-level applications; I64
and U64
were sufficient.
I recently find myself doing a lot of stuffing of bitfields/flags into rkv, and it would be convenient to not have to use a 64-bit integer to do it. I doubt there would be significant space savings, or even efficiency in read/write, but it would express intent and give more flexibility to the underlying storage.
Similarly, one can represent a 128-bit integer as a UUID and store it as a Value::Uuid
, but it would be neat to be able to use Rust's own u128
(introduced in 1.26) as a value.