Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> That's nothing for 9.4 anymore, but shouldn't we make pg_class.relpages
> a int8 (sounds slightly better than float to me) or somesuch?
No; those are really BlockNumbers, and have always been. float4 would
lose information and float8 or int8 would waste space. If we had an
unsigned int type it'd be better. I suppose we could declare them as OID,
but that would probably confuse people no end.
regards, tom lane
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