On 2021-Apr-01, Tom Lane wrote: > "'alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org'" <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > On 2021-Apr-01, Tom Lane wrote: > >> BTW, what in the world is this supposed to accomplish? > >> - (long long) rows_to_send); > >> + (1L << 62) + (long long) rows_to_send); > > > It makes the text representation wider, which means some buffer fills up > > faster and the program switches from sending to receiving. > > Hm. If the actual field value isn't relevant, why bother including > rows_to_send in it? A constant string would be simpler and much > less confusing as to its purpose.
Hah, yeah, we could as well do that I guess :-) -- Álvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile "I think my standards have lowered enough that now I think 'good design' is when the page doesn't irritate the living f*ck out of me." (JWZ)