Re: Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Tatsuhito Kasahara <kasahara(dot)tatsuhito(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fix pgstatindex using for large indexes
Date: 2008-03-01 16:07:26
Message-ID: 20080301160726.GC16327@fetter.org
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Is there any currently supported platform which does not have
> >>> uint64?
> >>
> >> I don't know, and neither do you.
>
> > Maybe we should look at some reasonable way of getting the info
> > out of a compiled instance. How about if we get pg_config to
> > output the value of INT64_IS_BUSTED?
>
> We know all the buildfarm machines have working int64, because
> they'd fail the bigint regression test if not. That's not the point
> here.

If we don't have buildfarm coverage for machines where INT64_IS_BUSTED,
how do we know we support those architectures at all?

Cheers,
David.
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