Re: C functions and int8?

From: Forest Wilkinson <fspam(at)home(dot)com>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: C functions and int8?
Date: 2000-09-22 00:35:27
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That's an int8 meaning "eight bit integer". I want to work with an int8
meaning "64 bit integer", as described in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/datatype.htm#AEN942

So how do I return one of these suckers from a C function?

Forest

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:32:50 +0200 (CEST), Karel Zak wrote:

>
>On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Forest Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> I have written a few Postgres extension functions in C, and want to modify
>> some of them to return an int8. However, I don't see any int8 definition
>> in postgres.h. (I have the 7.0.2 RPMs installed.) How should I
>> accomplish this?
>
> in the source tree: src/include/c.h
>
> typedef signed char int8; /* == 8 bits */
>
>
> ... but I not sure if this file is included in the RPM package.
>
>
> Karel

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