| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Syntax for partitioning |
| Date: | 2009-10-30 20:51:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20091030205147.GA17756@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Jeff Davis (pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com) wrote:
> Oid is unsigned, typmod is signed. We might be able to get away with it,
> but -1 is treated specially in some places outside of the type-specific
> functions, e.g. exprTypmod().
Any negative result returned from the input handling function is
considered an error, as I recall. It's more than just '-1'..
> I haven't looked at all of these places yet, so maybe a few simple
> changes would allow us to treat typmod as a full 32 bits. Or perhaps it
> could just be expanded to a signed 64-bit int. What do you think?
That was shot down previously due to the way typmods are passed around
currently.. Not that it wouldn't be really nice..
Thanks,
Stephen
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