Re: Use strtoi64() in pgbench, replacing its open-coded implementation

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Use strtoi64() in pgbench, replacing its open-coded implementation
Date: 2025-11-21 13:24:35
Message-ID: 202511211320.2cf7ygcyrkbs@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2025-Nov-21, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> I don't feel the urge to refactor this myself right now, but we probably
> could simplify this further. For example, I wonder if we should remove
> is_an_int() altogether and rely on strtoi64() to return failure if the input
> does't look like a integer.

I had the same thought -- is_an_int() is not doing anything useful and
it would be better to get rid of it. If we do have an integer-looking
that doesn't fit in int64, then maybe treating it as a double is not
wrong. (I suppose if we wanted to have numeric values beyond int64
range and not lose precision, we would have to add separate support for
that.)

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