| From: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> |
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| To: | "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql(at)rkirkpat(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | AW: PostgreSQL pre-7.1 Linux/Alpha Status... |
| Date: | 2000-12-21 10:53:11 |
| Message-ID: | 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368190@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at |
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> Not sure what to do about this. If you had actually typed 2^64-1040,
> it would be appropriate for the code to reject it. But I hadn't
> realized that the extra check would introduce a discrepancy between
> 32- and 64-bit machines for negative inputs. Maybe it'd be
> better just
> to delete the check. Comments anyone?
IIRC oid uses int4in/int4out and those should definitely be able to parse
-1040 into a 4 byte signed long without platform dependency, no ?
pg_dump with OID's dumps those negative numbers if oid > 2^32,
thus this input must imho be made to work correctly.
Andreas
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