Re: int8 sequences --- small implementation problem

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > > And he who needs that kind of long term row identifiers would
> > > be better off with 8-byte sequences anyway - IMNSVHO.
> >
> > What I need is a way to pad the struct declaration so that it leaves
> > 8 bytes per int64 column, no matter what. I thought of
> >
> > This would work, I think, but my goodness it's an ugly solution.
> > Has any hacker got a better one?
>
> The only thing I could think of is using a struct to hide the
> padding details instead of directly using int64, but then you'd have to
> add a '.value' or something to the references. I'm not sure that's really
> any cleaner.

What I'm asking myself all the time is "which platforms do we
support that doesn't have 8-byte integers?". Could someone
enlighten me please?

And what does int8 do on these platforms?

Jan

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