Re: contrib/intarray/_int_gist.c

"Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> writes:
> AFAICS, int32 and int are exactly the same thing in PostgreSQL. For the
> machine int is not 32 bits long, PostgreSQL won't even run.

Ideally we should operate correctly if "int" is 64 bits. In practice
I agree that making contrib work would be mighty far down the list of
things to fix...

It appears to me that the current de-facto standard for C on 64-bit
machines is
char 8 bits
short 16 bits
int 32 bits
long 64 bits
Promoting "int" to 64 bits has a big problem: you have to drop one of
the widths entirely, because there is no other basic type allowed by
C. (int16_t and the others are only typedefs not new basic types.)
So I'm not really expecting to see int = 64 bits any time soon.

As for the other direction (int = 16 bits), there's no real hope of
running Postgres on a 16-bit machine anyway :-(

regards, tom lane