Add BigInt column/attribute documentation#2972
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Cover the new 64-bit signed integer type added in appwrite#11673 across TablesDB columns, legacy collection attributes, and atomic numeric operations. Includes a changelog entry for discoverability. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Confidence Score: 4/5Documentation-only change; safe to merge after fixing the minor comment inconsistency in the changelog example. All changes are Markdown documentation with no executable code. The The changelog entry 2026-05-06.markdoc has a minor but potentially confusing method-name inconsistency worth correcting before publish. Important Files Changed
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| // createBigIntAttribute is also available | ||
| databases.createBigintAttribute( |
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createBigIntAttribute (capital I) but the actual function call on the next line uses createBigintAttribute (lowercase i). These look like two different method names, which could confuse readers into thinking a second variant exists. One of them needs to match the real SDK method name.
| // createBigIntAttribute is also available | |
| databases.createBigintAttribute( | |
| // createBigintAttribute | |
| databases.createBigintAttribute( |


Summary
bigintto the column types table on the Tables docs page with description of 64-bit signed range and use casestotal_viewsbigint column example to all 11 SDKcreateTablecode samples (Node.js, Deno, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Dart, Kotlin, Java, Swift, Rust)bigintto the legacy Collections attributes tablebigintcolumn compatibility on the Atomic numeric operations pageCovers the user-facing BigInt support added in appwrite/appwrite#11673.
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createTablemulticode block include thetotal_viewsbigint columnbigintrow/changelogrenders correctly🤖 Generated with Claude Code