From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Use of "long" in incremental sort code |
Date: | 2020-07-02 19:55:31 |
Message-ID: | 864757.1593719731@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:39 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> mumble ssize_t mumble
> But wouldn't that mean we'd get int on 32-bit systems, and since we're
> accumulating data we could go over that value in both memory and disk?
Certainly, a number that's meant to represent the amount of data *on disk*
shouldn't use ssize_t. But I think it's appropriate if you want to
represent in-memory quantities while also allowing negative values.
I guess if you're expecting in-memory sizes exceeding 2GB, you might worry
that ssize_t could overflow. I'm dubious that a 32-bit machine could get
to that, though, seeing that it's going to have other demands on its
address space.
> My assumption is that it's preferable to have the "this run value" and
> the "total used across multiple runs" and both of those for disk and
> memory to be the same. In that case it seems we want to guarantee
> 64-bits.
If you're not going to distinguish in-memory from not-in-memory, agreed.
regards, tom lane
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