Re: Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Centralize use of PG_INTXX_MIN/MAX for integer limits
Date: 2018-11-25 15:26:29
Message-ID: e7595006-570e-49c8-57de-22b54c15ba71@2ndquadrant.com
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On 24/11/2018 13:15, Michael Paquier wrote:
> A couple of years ago, 62e2a8dc has introduced in c.h a set of limits
> (to fix some portability issues from 83ff1618) to make the code more
> system-independent. Those are for example PG_INT32_MIN, etc. The core
> code now mixes the internal PG_ limits with the system ones. Would we
> want to unify a bit the whole thing and replace all the SHRT_MIN/MAX,
> LONG_MIN/MAX and such with the internal limit definitions?

Since we now require C99, we could also just use the system-provided
definitions in <stdint.h>.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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