Re: PQntuples return type

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQntuples return type
Date: 2007-07-30 14:21:56
Message-ID: db0eb91047d052e22ad6b960a06d5d8a@biglumber.com
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> So, my doubt is: if the return type is int instead of unsigned int,
> is this function testable for negative return values?

A quick glance at the code in fe-exec.c and fe-protocol3.c shows that
the underlying variable starts at 0 as an int and in incremented by
one every row, so it seems possible that it could wrap around for
very large results sets and/or boxes with a low representation of 'int'.
There may be some other safeguards in place I did not see to prevent this,
but I don't see a reason why we shouldn't use unsigned int or
unsigned long int here, both for ntups and the return value of the
function.

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