Currently, we verify the column PRECISION from the definition to define which type of value to use in Protostream. Numeric columns with a precision of 10 or less are integers. However, an integer value accepts values only in [-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647]. Notice that it has 10 digits, but it is missing values (on the positive side) between [2,147,483,648 to 9,999,999,999].

A column can be defined as `NUMERIC(10, 0)` and should accept these values bigger than usual Java integers.