>> I think Tom's point is, there are tons of applications which define
>> their own "int64_t" (at least in 2005).
>> Also pg_config.h has:
>>
>> #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
>>
>> and this suggests that PostgreSQL adopts to platforms which does not
>> have stdint.h. If so, we need to take care of such platforms anyway.
>>
> OK, it makes me clear. It might be helpful a source code comment
> to remain why we used self defined datatype here.
Ok.
> 2012/9/21 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
>>> To pass 64-bit integer to PQfn, PQArgBlock is used like this: int *ptr
>>> is a pointer to 64-bit integer and actual data is placed somewhere
>>> else.
>>
>> Yeah, I think we have to do it like that. Changing the size of
>> PQArgBlock would be a libpq ABI break, which IMO is sufficiently painful
>> to kill this whole proposal. Much better a little localized ugliness
>> in fe-lobj.c.
>>
> Hmm, I see. Please deliver the 64bit integer argument as reference,
> and don't forget endian translations here.
I thought pgPutInt64() takes care of endianness. No?
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