Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 08:18, movead.li@highgo.ca <movead.li@highgo.ca>
> wrote:
>> if we change return type of all those functions to int64, we won't need
>> this cast.
>> I change the 'encode' function, it needs an int64 return type, but keep
>> other
>> functions in 'pg_encoding', because I think it of no necessary reason.
> Ok, let's leave it for a committer to decide.
If I'm grasping the purpose of these correctly, wouldn't Size or size_t
be a more appropriate type? And I definitely agree with changing all
of these APIs at once, if they're all dealing with the same kind of
value.
regards, tom lane
