> > IIRC oid uses int4in/int4out and those should definitely be able to parse
> > -1040 into a 4 byte signed long without platform dependency, no ?
>
> Tom Lane changed this recently to have OID use its own i/o routines.
Reading the code, I don't understand it. Why would strtoul return an int in the
first place ? The name seems to imply an unsigned long return type.
Seems config should check the return type of strtoul.
Andreas