Add, optional, support for 128bit integers.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Commit: 8122e1437e332e156d971a0274879b0ee76e488a
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2015-03-20T09:26:17Z
Releases: 9.5.0
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

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config/c-compiler.m4 modified +37 −0
configure modified +52 −0
configure.in modified +3 −0
src/include/c.h modified +11 −0
src/include/pg_config.h.in modified +3 −0
src/include/pg_config.h.win32 modified +3 −0