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;


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