Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples
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Msg-id 8433379a-6f86-ba63-82aa-18691efc0174@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On 2019-04-29 19:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another problem is that while "%lu" format specifiers are portable,
> INT64_FORMAT is a *big* pain, not least because you can't put it into
> translatable strings without causing problems.  To the extent that
> we could go over to "%zu" instead, maybe this could be finessed,
> but blind "s/long/int64/g" isn't going to be any fun.

Since we control our own snprintf now, this could probably be addressed
somehow, right?

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