On Monday 29 June 2009 17:20:09 Tom Lane wrote: > The problem with this is that it's barely the tip of the iceberg. > One point I recall is that there are lots of places where "%lu" is > assumed to be the correct format to print Datums with.
Hmm. I tried this out. typedef Datum to be long long int on a 32-bit platform and compile. You get lots of warnings, but none about a format problem. But if you explicitly insert a call like elog(INFO "datum is %lu", somedatum), then you see a warning. So this problem might not be very widespread. > If it were > actually possible to support Win64 with only a couple of dozen lines > of changes, we would have done it long since. Possibly, or everyone was too confused and didn't know where to start. I think this proposed change is a step in the right direction, and it doesn't make things worse for anyone else. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
