Re: Re: int8/float8/time/timestamp[tz]/float4 passed by value, was Re: Fix HAVE_LONG[_LONG]_INT_64 to really define to 1 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Zoltan Boszormenyi
Subject Re: Re: int8/float8/time/timestamp[tz]/float4 passed by value, was Re: Fix HAVE_LONG[_LONG]_INT_64 to really define to 1
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Msg-id 47E8CB9F.6040006@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Re: int8/float8/time/timestamp[tz]/float4 passed by value, was Re: Fix HAVE_LONG[_LONG]_INT_64 to really define to 1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: int8/float8/time/timestamp[tz]/float4 passed by value, was Re: Fix HAVE_LONG[_LONG]_INT_64 to really define to 1  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
>
>> Gregory Stark írta:
>>
>>> 1) Please don't include configure in your patch. I don't know why it's checked
>>> into CVS but it is so that means manually removing it from any patch. It's
>>> usually a huge portion of the diff so it's worth removing.
>>>
>
>
>> Noted.
>>
>
> Just for the record: the reason configure is in CVS is to avoid
> requiring users of CVS checkouts to have autoconf installed.
>
> Perhaps we should rethink that, but in any case there's no point
> in submitting manual diffs to configure (or any other generated
> file).  Best practice is to just remind the committer that the
> generated file needs to be regenerated.
>
>
>>> 3) You could get rid of a bunch of #ifndef HAVE_LONG_INT_64 snippets by having
>>> a #define like INT64PASSBYVALUE which is defined to be either "true" or
>>> "false".
>>>
>
>
>> OK, this would also make the patch smaller.
>> Is pg_config_manual.h good for this setting?
>>
>
> I'd go for having a #define like that, but what is the reason to set it
> in pg_config_manual.h?  Seems like the configure script should set it.
>

Obviously. :-) Thanks.

And:

Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> Changes to genbki.sh also have to be "mirrored" in the msvc build
> scripts (Genbki.pm) in most cases...
>
>
> //Magnus

Thanks for the info, I modified this file as well.
Please review the change, I am not a Perl expert and
I don't have a Windows build environment.

New patch is attached.

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