64-bit integers for GUC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject 64-bit integers for GUC
Date
Msg-id 200607251307.47747.peter_e@gmx.net
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Responses Re: 64-bit integers for GUC  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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ISTM that before long someone will want to use more than 2 GB for work_mem.  
Currently, you can't set more because it overflows the variable.  I'm not 
sure a wholesale switch of GUC integers to 64 bit is the solution.  Maybe 
changing some of the variables to reals would work.  Comments?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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