Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: [HACKERS] Should logtape.c blocks be of type long? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Should logtape.c blocks be of type long?
Date
Msg-id ZQ-UGWtLyHQ9shlp@paquier.xyz
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: [HACKERS] Should logtape.c blocks be of type long?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Should logtape.c blocks be of type long?
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:53:02PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> No new thoughts. I'm still all in favor of this. Thanks for picking it up.

Okay, thanks.  I guess that nobody would complain if I were to apply
that..

> At some point we should completely ban the use of "long".

Indeed, or Windows decides that making long 8-byte is wiser, but I
doubt that's ever going to happen on backward-compatibility ground.
--
Michael
Attachment

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Peter Geoghegan
Date:
Subject: Re: nbtree's ScalarArrayOp array mark/restore code appears to be buggy
Next
From: Etsuro Fujita
Date:
Subject: Re: Avoid a possible out-of-bounds access (src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c)