On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:41 +0200, Florian G. Pflug wrote: > Or are platforms with INT64_IS_BUSTED no longer supported, > and are all those #ifdefs only legacy code?
Personally I think we should head in that direction: if we enable integer datetimes by default in 8.4 (per earlier discussion), such machines will be more broken still. We could fallback to using FP datetimes on INT64_IS_BUSTED machines, but IMHO it is just fundamentally unwise to have the behavior of a builtin data type dependent on this sort of thing. > Please enlighten a poor linux+gcc user who can't remember > ever using a compiler without a "long long" datatype after > leaving TurboC under DOS. I'm not aware of any platform we might conceivably care about that doesn't have a 64-bit integral type. To verify this, Peter E. suggested that we emit a build-time warning if compiling on such a platform for 8.3, which I think would be worth doing. -Neil ---------------------------(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