Re: [HACKERS] PostGreSQL v6.2.1 for Linux Alpha

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: khollis@Gawain.Houston-InterWeb.COM (Kenji T. Hollis)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-02-12T16:50:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> Bruce:
> 
> > Take a look at utils/hash/hashfn.c:tag_hash.  Is there a problem in that
> > code for your platform.  Is the hash getting set, or is it falling
> > through the case statements?  This code is clearly broken for
> > sizeof(int) > 4, but I think your ints are 4, and longs are 8.  I bet
> > somewhere we are using a long where we should be using an int, and that
> > is why only your platform is seeing it.  Is this true about long vs.
> > int.  I can review our use of longs to see if there are problems.
> 
> I created a small program to return the size of values.  They are:
> 
> Size of short: 2
> Size of char:  1
> Size of int:   4
> Size of long:  8
> 
> Does this help?

Yep.  Does anyone else run OS's with the size of long greater than int? 
Does Dec Unix Alpha?  Are people running that?

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us