Re: 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...
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Msg-id 200312070106.hB716uT14500@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 7.4.1 ... slight change of scheduale ...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I am still reading email from yesterday, but this is a new patch in the
> > past 2 days.  The problem is that time differences were overflowing int
> > values if the vacuum took a long time, or something like that.  The fix
> > is to cast one to long long.
>
> That's no fix --- it will break the code on compilers without long long.

Here are the emails describing the problem.  Seems they should see how
we do time differences in the backend as an example.

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