David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:40:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> For that matter, we can't even guarantee that they work at all: not >> all platforms even *have* int64 types.
> What platforms that PG supports don't have int64 arithmetic? We claim to build with any ANSI C compiler, and there is no requirement for a 64-bit type in ANSI C. The historical project policy is that we should still build without such a type, and everything should still work except that the effective bounds of bigint data correspond to int32 instead of int64 limits. I see no reason to back off that policy. It's not very much harder to do it right. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq