BigInt parsing bullet-proofing

lib/types/binaryParsers.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+var ref = require('ref');
+
 var parseBits = function(data, bits, offset, invert, callback) {
   offset = offset || 0;
   invert = invert || false;
@@ -106,11 +108,7 @@ var parseInt32 = function(value) {
 };
 
 var parseInt64 = function(value) {
-  if (parseBits(value, 1) == 1) {
-    return -1 * (parseBits(value, 63, 1, true) + 1);
-  }
-
-  return parseBits(value, 63, 1);
+  return String(ref.readInt64BE(value, 0));
 };
 
 var parseFloat32 = function(value) {

lib/types/textParsers.js

@@ -162,8 +162,14 @@ var parseInteger = function(val) {
   return parseInt(val, 10);
 };
 
+var parseBigInteger = function(val) {
+  var valStr = String(val);
+  if (/^\d+$/.test(valStr)) { return valStr; }
+  return val;
+};
+
 var init = function(register) {
-  register(20, parseInteger);
+  register(20, parseBigInteger);
   register(21, parseInteger);
   register(23, parseInteger);
   register(26, parseInteger);

package.json

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
   "main": "./lib",
   "dependencies": {
     "generic-pool": "2.0.3",
-    "buffer-writer": "1.0.0"
+    "buffer-writer": "1.0.0",
+    "ref": "0.1.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "jshint": "1.1.0",

test/integration/client/type-coercion-tests.js

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ var types = [{
   values: [-1, 0, 1, null]
 },{
   name: 'bigint',
-  values: [-10000, 0, 10000, null]
+  values: ['-9223372036854775808', '-9007199254740992', '0', '72057594037928030', '9007199254740992', '9223372036854775807', null]
 },{
   name: 'varchar(5)',
   values: ['yo', '', 'zomg!', null]

test/unit/client/typed-query-results-tests.js

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ test('typed results', function() {
     name: 'bigint/int8',
     format: 'text',
     dataTypeID: 20,
-    actual: '102',
-    expected: 102
+    actual: '9223372036854775807',
+    expected: '9223372036854775807'
   },{
     name: 'oid',
     format: 'text',
@@ -222,13 +222,13 @@ test('typed results', function() {
     format: 'binary',
     dataTypeID: 20,
     actual: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 102],
-    expected: 102
+    expected: '102'
   },{
     name: 'binary-bigint/int8-full',
     format: 'binary',
     dataTypeID: 20,
     actual: [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 102],
-    expected: 72057594037928030
+    expected: '72057594037928038'
   },{
     name: 'binary-oid',
     format: 'binary',