On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:53 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2020-09-21 14:08:22 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > There is no SQL type corresponding to the C data type uint32, so I'm
> > not sure why we even have DatumGetUInt32. I'm sort of suspicious that
> > there's some fuzzy thinking going on there.
>
> I think we mostly use it for the few places where we currently expose
> data as a signed integer on the SQL level, but internally actually treat
> it as a unsigned data.
So why is the right solution to that not DatumGetInt32() + a cast to uint32?
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