| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | barlone(at)gmail(dot)com |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #17074: PQsocket() truncate hande on win64 |
| Date: | 2021-06-28 14:19:11 |
| Message-ID: | 153442.1624889951@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)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