Re: Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes
Date
Msg-id 20080301160726.GC16327@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Is there any currently supported platform which does not have
> >>> uint64?
> >>
> >> I don't know, and neither do you.
>
> > Maybe we should look at some reasonable way of getting the info
> > out of a compiled instance. How about if we get pg_config to
> > output the value of INT64_IS_BUSTED?
>
> We know all the buildfarm machines have working int64, because
> they'd fail the bigint regression test if not.  That's not the point
> here.

If we don't have buildfarm coverage for machines where INT64_IS_BUSTED,
how do we know we support those architectures at all?

Cheers,
David.
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