Re: SPI bug. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SPI bug.
Date
Msg-id 24529.1114961382@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: SPI bug.  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> The reason the API types should use "long" is that the underlying 
> executor APIs (e.g. ExecutorRun()) use "long". It might be a good idea 
> to change the executor stuff to use int64s

No, it would not.  There is a potential performance cost ("long" should
have at least acceptable performance on all machines, "long long" is
another story) and there is no demonstrated need.
        regards, tom lane


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