Re: PQntuples return type

["Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>]

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> So, my doubt is: if the return type is int instead of unsigned int, 
> is this function testable for negative return values?

A quick glance at the code in fe-exec.c and fe-protocol3.c shows that 
the underlying variable starts at 0 as an int and in incremented by 
one every row, so it seems possible that it could wrap around for 
very large results sets and/or boxes with a low representation of 'int'. 
There may be some other safeguards in place I did not see to prevent this, 
but I don't see a reason why we shouldn't use unsigned int or 
unsigned long int here, both for ntups and the return value of the 
function.

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