Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples
Date: 2019-04-29 18:31:44
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=7aqJ4k6JAqOkoA2uMFVRczv_TMYAxLX=kB8YgXd-0-g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:24 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > I don't think that anybody cares about Win64 very much.
>
> I seriously doubt this assertion. Note that the postgres packages on
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/ do not support 32bit
> windows anymore (edb from 11 onwards, bigsql apparently always). And I
> think there's a pretty substantial number of windows users out there.

I was talking about the motivation behind this thread, and I suppose
that I included you in that based on things you've said about Windows
in the past (apparently I shouldn't have done so).

I am interested in making the code less complicated. If we can remove
the work_mem kludge for Windows as a consequence of that, then so much
the better.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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