Re: Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits
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Msg-id e7595006-570e-49c8-57de-22b54c15ba71@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 24/11/2018 13:15, Michael Paquier wrote:
> A couple of years ago, 62e2a8dc has introduced in c.h a set of limits
> (to fix some portability issues from 83ff1618) to make the code more
> system-independent.  Those are for example PG_INT32_MIN, etc.  The core
> code now mixes the internal PG_ limits with the system ones.  Would we
> want to unify a bit the whole thing and replace all the SHRT_MIN/MAX,
> LONG_MIN/MAX and such with the internal limit definitions?

Since we now require C99, we could also just use the system-provided
definitions in <stdint.h>.

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