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From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Use of "long" in incremental sort code
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Msg-id CAH2-WzkjqYNBmrgR8v-jzMtUauVR_i7EqsGU4_gaWZsehiLzeg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Use of "long" in incremental sort code  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > That's from POSIX, though. I imagine MSVC won't be happy (surprise!).
>
> We've got quite a few uses of it already, so apparently it's fine.

Oh, looks like we have a compatibility hack for MSVC within
win32_port.h, where ssize_t is typedef'd to __int64. I didn't realize
that it was okay to use ssize_t.

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Peter Geoghegan

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