Re: plan time of MASSIVE partitioning ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plan time of MASSIVE partitioning ...
Date: 2010-09-08 16:03:48
Message-ID: 4593.1283961828@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> Indeed, but code like this makes me wonder if this is really working the
> way it's supposed to:

> + val1 = (long)pk_left->pk_eclass;
> + val2 = (long)pk_right->pk_eclass;

Ugh. Casting a pointer to long? We do have portable ways to do what
this is trying to do, but that is not one. (For example, this is
guaranteed to misbehave on 64-bit Windows.)

Offhand I think PointerGetDatum might be the best way.

regards, tom lane

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