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Re: Let psql process files with > 4,294,967,295 lines


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
  • Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Let psql process files with > 4,294,967,295 lines
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:30:40 -0400
  • Message-id: <20060730213040.GB10074@surnet.cl> <text/plain>

David Fetter wrote:

Hi,

> I just ran across an issue where in psql, people can get the line
> number in the file so long as it is under 2^32-1 lines long, but once
> it gets larger than that, it's hosed.
> 
> This patch changes the data type from unsigned int to unsigned long
> long, which is probably not the correct thing in order to get 64-bit
> arithmetic, but I figure it's good enough to get a discussion started.

The only thing I can tell you is that you should use INT64_FORMAT
instead of %lld.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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