Re: Switch buffile.c/h to use pgoff_t

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Bryan Green <dbryan(dot)green(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Switch buffile.c/h to use pgoff_t
Date: 2025-12-22 22:49:21
Message-ID: aUnK8U85Ooxww-gy@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 02:22:02PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> The point of such changes would be to lift this barrier at some point,
> which is what the other thread I am mentioning upthread is also
> pointing at. It does not change the fact that this code is currently
> not portable as written: off_t can be 4 or 8 bytes depending on the
> environment, and pgoff_t exists to be a stable alternative. This
> relates as well to the use of long in the tree, all coming down to
> WIN32.

Getting rid of a couple more long assumptions while removing one
portability comment from buffile.c is appealing while the change is
not invasive, so applied.
--
Michael

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