Re: [HACKERS] more on int8

> > I tried the int8 type under BSD/OS, running 6.3.2 (contrib/int8).
> > There the %Ld type is unimplemented and %lld or %qd both work.
> > For BSD/OS 3.1, since DLSUFFIX is .o (static shared libraries), there
> > is a circular dependence in the Makefile. This is resolved by
> > commenting out (or ifdefing) the following segment:
> > int8$(DLSUFFIX): int8.o
> > $(CC) -shared -o int8$(DLSUFFIX) int8.o $(CLIBS)
> > Under BSD/OS 4.0 this should not be neccesary, as it supports Linux
> > style shared libraries.
> > I am missing the aggregate functions, such as sum() to deal with int8.
> > Is there problem to add all functionality that
> > exists for int4 to the int8 type?
>
> int8 is a native built-in type for the next release of Postgres. Would
> you be willing to try beta testing the package and we can work out how
> to support BSD/OS?
>
> It may be that no changes would be necessary for you, since we are now
> using "%lld" for the default printf/scanf formatting string. But you
> would have to try an installation and see if "configure" catches the
> right characteristics of your system. The shared library won't be an
> issue since everything is now built in.

I am running BSD/OS here, and configure recoginizes it with %qd.

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