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From Daniel Verite
Subject Re: count(*) in binary mode returns 0
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In response to count(*) in binary mode returns 0  ("imagenesis@gmail.com" <imagenesis@gmail.com>)
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    imagenesis@gmail.com wrote:

> nfields: 1
> from_psql 00000000000000000000000000000000 bytes_to_read:4 read:4
> host_order 00000000000000000000000000000000 bytes_to_read:4 read:4
> conv_int ir:0

Note that count(*) produces a bigint (8 bytes), not an int (4 bytes).

=> select pg_typeof(count(1));
 pg_typeof
-----------
 bigint
(1 row)

Can you check if your code does work when the query is simply
SELECT 1::bigint ?


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