Re: 64-bit API for large objects

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> 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