Re: A Windows x64 port of MySQL

From: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
To: Ken Camann <kjcamann(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A Windows x64 port of MySQL
Date: 2008-07-02 13:09:55
Message-ID: 86BB44471B986D0A4C3E1D49@imhotep.credativ.de
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--On Mittwoch, Juli 02, 2008 07:39:29 -0400 Ken Camann <kjcamann(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> I assume it would only really matter if you did this to
> a pointer, and perhaps that is happening somewhere (but I doubt it
> since postgres runs fine on 64-bit POSIX OSes). These would be easy
> to fix, but very annoying given the number of them.

At least, every Datum depends on something like that, see
src/include/postgres.h:

sizeof(Datum) == sizeof(long) >= sizeof(void *) >= 4

--
Thanks

Bernd

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