Re: Cannot find a working 64-bit integer type on Illumos - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 29.11.24 20:30, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking about that ECPG stuff: I bet real applications prefer
> to use int64_t etc directly too instead of long, the worst type in C.
> I wondered if the embedded SQL standard might know about that these
> days (ECPGt_int64_t?), but I don't have the standard to hand.  DB2's
> embedded SQL seems to have a type sqlint64, but I didn't look too
> closely and of course even if we wanted to do something like that as
> an optional API option, that'd be a later change.

Interesting:

i) If “long long” is specified, then the <host parameter data type> of 
HV is BIGINT.
ii) If “long” is specified, then the <host parameter data type> of HV is 
INTEGER.
iii) If “short” is specified, then the <host parameter data type> of HV 
is SMALLINT.
[...]

I suppose that makes sense.

> BTW I forgot to mention earlier, I peeked at the source of gettext on
> NetBSD and illumos, and both appear to handle those special
> <inttypes.h> tokens when loading message catalogues.

Ah great, thanks for checking that.