Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult. As long as PQntuples, PQgetvalue, etc, use "int" for row numbers, we're pretty much stuck with this limitation. The documentation formerly stated that the result of PQntuples "might overflow on 32-bit operating systems", which is just nonsense: that's not where the overflow would happen, and if you did reach an overflow it would not be on a 32-bit machine, because you'd have OOM'd long since. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+FnnTxyLWyjY1goewmJNxC==HQCCF4fKkoCTa9qR36oRAHDPw@mail.gmail.com
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