On 10.12.21 16:25, Tom Lane wrote:
Our experience with the variable size of "long" has left a sufficiently bad taste in my mouth that I'm not enthused about adding hard-wired assumptions that "long long" is identical to int64. So this seems like it's going in the wrong direction, and giving up portability that we might want back someday.
What kind of scenario do you have in mind? Someone making their long long int 128 bits?