Re: 64-bit API for large objects

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:40:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeremy Drake <pgsql(at)jdrake(dot)com> 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
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