pgsql: Add, optional, support for 128bit integers.

Started by Andres Freundover 11 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Andres Freund
andres@anarazel.de

Add, optional, support for 128bit integers.

We will, for the foreseeable future, not expose 128 bit datatypes to
SQL. But being able to use 128bit math will allow us, in a later patch,
to use 128bit accumulators for some aggregates; leading to noticeable
speedups over using numeric.

So far we only detect a gcc/clang extension that supports 128bit math,
but no 128bit literals, and no *printf support. We might want to expand
this in the future to further compilers; if there are any that that
provide similar support.

Discussion: 544BB5F1.50709@proxel.se
Author: Andreas Karlsson, with significant editorializing by me
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Oskari Saarenmaa

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8122e1437e332e156d971a0274879b0ee76e488a

Modified Files
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config/c-compiler.m4 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
configure | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
configure.in | 3 +++
src/include/c.h | 11 +++++++++
src/include/pg_config.h.in | 3 +++
src/include/pg_config.h.win32 | 3 +++
6 files changed, 109 insertions(+)

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