Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Hannu Krosing writes:
>
> > > The first thought that comes to mind is that XIDs should be promoted to
> > > eight bytes. However there are several practical problems with this:
> > > * portability --- I don't believe long long int exists on all the
> > > platforms we support.
> >
> > I suspect that gcc at least supports long long on all OS-s we support
>
> Uh, we don't want to depend on gcc, do we?
I suspect that we do on many platforms (like *BSD, Linux and Win32).
What platforms we currently support don't have functional gcc ?
> But we could make the XID a struct of two 4-byte integers, at the obvious
> increase in storage size.
And a (hopefully) small performance hit on operations when defined as
macros,
and some more for less data fitting in cache.
what operations do we need to be defined ?
will >, <, ==, !=, >=, <== and ++ be enough ?
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Hannu
