Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> I think the Python guys are up against the same problem as us, namely > >> substituting for the platform's failure to define the type. > > > I am unclear if accepting what Python chose as a default is the right > > route vs. doing more research. > > What exactly do you think we might do differently? There is only one > sane definition for ssize_t on a 64-bit platform.
Well, I saw two definitions listed in this thread, and it wasn't clear to me the Python one was known to be the correct one: PostgreSQL has it as typedef long ssize_t; And python has it as: typedef __int64 ssize_t; -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers