On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:40:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Jeremy Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The real problem here is that int64 isn't a well-defined portable > datatype, and so it's going to be very hard to export these > functions in a way that won't break on different platforms, > applications compiled with a different compiler than libpq was, etc. > > For that matter, we can't even guarantee that they work at all: not > all platforms even *have* int64 types. We have so far avoided > putting any fundamental dependencies on int64 arithmetic into the > system, and I'm a bit worried that this patch will break LO support > entirely on platforms that don't have working int64 arithmetic.
What platforms that PG supports don't have int64 arithmetic? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
