Re: PQntuples return type

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > So, my doubt is: if the return type is int instead of unsigned int,
> > is this function testable for negative return values?
>
> A quick glance at the code in fe-exec.c and fe-protocol3.c shows that
> the underlying variable starts at 0 as an int and in incremented by
> one every row, so it seems possible that it could wrap around for
> very large results sets and/or boxes with a low representation of 'int'.
> There may be some other safeguards in place I did not see to prevent this,
> but I don't see a reason why we shouldn't use unsigned int or
> unsigned long int here, both for ntups and the return value of the
> function.

On second thought, I have at least updated the function documentation:

Returns the number of rows (tuples) in the query result. Because
it returns an integer result, large result sets might overflow the
return value on 32-bit operating systems.

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