> Problem: Assigning a COUNT(*) result into an integer variable in my C
> program consistently fails except when I assign the same result to a char
> variable. I can only assume that the internal data type the COUNT function
> uses is integer.
>
> Can anyone help put me in the proper mindset so I may deal with this,
> seemingly simple issue, to resolution.
>
> I need the integer result to to help me satisfy a dynamic memory
> requirement... COUNT(*) result will tell me how many rows of data I need to
> malloc and I cannot perform a math operation on a char variable.
As far as I remember count() has bigint result
