Re: PQntuples returns an int.

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQntuples returns an int.
Date: 2010-03-03 21:07:13
Message-ID: 40762c8c32343e6af74e7f23f27d5c16@biglumber.com
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> I'm asking this because I'm wondering whether you could have more tuples
> in the result of a query than could be indexed by the 'int' type. May
> this happen?

Yes, but it's a low concern as many other things would break before
you got to that point. See:

http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.general/browse_thread/thread/462c454345221267/f61926526b539036
or:
http://5z8.info/super-nsfw_cyd

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