Thread: BUG #17074: PQsocket() truncate hande on win64
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 17074 Logged by: Alexey Polushin Email address: barlone@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 13.3 Operating system: windows 64 bit Description: Function PQsocket from libpq returns int. But on win64, int type has 32 bits, and socket handle has 64 bits. PQsocket must return а different type, may be ptrdiff_t.
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes: > Function PQsocket from libpq returns int. But on win64, int type has 32 > bits, and socket handle has 64 bits. > PQsocket must return а different type, may be ptrdiff_t. We can't just redefine the result type of PQsocket without causing API/ABI breakage everywhere. Perhaps it would be worth inventing a Windows-only function that returns a connection's socket handle. There hasn't been much demand for that though. regards, tom lane