Question about 8-byte datatypes
Is int8 a passed-by-value data type on 64-bit platforms? How do we arrange for
that to be the case? I don't see any magic in pg_type.h but I'm not sure what
I'm looking for.
I'm asking because I have another 8-byte data type I want to use and it would
be nice to have that same property, assuming we have it for int8.
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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:16:06AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
Is int8 a passed-by-value data type on 64-bit platforms? How do we arrange for
that to be the case? I don't see any magic in pg_type.h but I'm not sure what
I'm looking for.
Not AFAIK. It would involve fiddeling the catalog, tricky since the
catalog genration script doesn't understand #ifdef's. Also you would
have to add conditionals for the the PG_RETURN_* and PG_GET* macros.
I'm asking because I have another 8-byte data type I want to use and it would
be nice to have that same property, assuming we have it for int8.
Yes that'd be nice, but not entirely straightforward.
Have a nice day,
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