On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> > It might seem a minor quibble, but it seems like a more reliable approach
> > might be to cast to a 64 bit type and user a 64 bit int formatter.
> %ld ? %lld? depending on architecture?
>
> >
> > It seems unlikely that state->ptr - state->begin would yield a number that
> > large but I don't know that that would be true of every platform or user.
>
> I don't believe that it can be more that 1Gb - it's a limit for any varlena type.
>
True. int32 should be fine.
Thanks,
gavin
