Re: Rejection of the smallest int8 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rejection of the smallest int8
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Msg-id 25751.1006380904@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Rejection of the smallest int8  (sugita@sra.co.jp)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Use strtoll/strtoull if available.  They should be on "most" systems
> anyway.

Mph.  The reason int8in is coded the way it is is to avoid having to
deal with strtoll configuration (does it exist?  Is it the right thing?
Don't forget Alphas, where int8 == long).  We'd still need a fallback
if it doesn't exist, so I'm not that excited about this answer.

            regards, tom lane

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