Re: Let psql process files with > 4,294,967,295 lines

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Let psql process files with > 4,294,967,295 lines
Date: 2006-07-30 21:40:16
Message-ID: 4147.1154295616@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> This patch changes the data type from unsigned int to unsigned long
>> long, which is probably not the correct thing in order to get 64-bit
>> arithmetic, but I figure it's good enough to get a discussion started.

> The only thing I can tell you is that you should use INT64_FORMAT
> instead of %lld.

And the datatype should be declared int64, not "long long" which doesn't
exist everywhere.

Actually you probably want uint64 and UINT64_FORMAT...

regards, tom lane

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